‘Table, Tabula’ [Table Format], 2019/2025

With his edition for Table Tableau, Joseph Kosuth returns to his long-standing engagement with language and meaning. The work recalls his seminal One and Three series, in which an object is presented alongside its photograph and dictionary definition. Here, the wall artwork shows the definition of the word table, overlaid with a photograph of the corresponding tabletop. The table and the picture of the table thus mirror each other: one as object, the other as concept. Through this pairing, Kosuth translates his inquiry into the nature of representation into a literal form – an artwork that is at once about, and itself, a table.