Joseph Kosuth
Drawing for Zero & Not
1986
30 x 30 inches
Courtesy Jean Castelli
Joseph Kosuth, born 1945, lives and works in New York and London
“A work by Joseph Kosuth, entitled Zero & Not (1986), points out both the psychoanalytic attitude to language and the tendency of Freud’s words to assert their authority despite our efforts to wipe them out. A Freudian text is printed on the gallery wall, then struck through with black tape, so that it is erased but still insists. It remains more or less readable: its lesson – the lesson of psychoanalysis; a lesson, after all, about the impossibility of erasure – simply won’t go away.”
– Brian Dillon, “The Revelation of Erasure,” Tate Etc. 2006