Construction of the Museum as Concept
The museum appears inside the artwork as something still being built. Institutional authority is shown as architecture, ornament, labor, scaffolding, and frame.
An image study in which the museum is not the neutral container of art but a subject of it — depicted mid-construction, its authority still being assembled out of architecture, ornament, labor, and the gold frame.
Treating the institution as material rather than backdrop is the move at the heart of institutional critique; here it is made literal, the frame and the façade shown as things that are made, and therefore things that could be made otherwise.