Cuban-American visual artist Félix González-Torres died in 1996 at the age of 38 due to Aids-related complications. With an acute awareness of his own mortality towards the end, the artist focused on developing a body of ever-changing works with guidelines for galleries exhibiting his art after he died.
“The instructions, or lack of them, guarantee that once I am no longer here, this work will still be alive, in constant change, in different configurations. As in a dream, taking almost no space,” he said in 1995.
