May I Help You?
ANDREA FRASER
1991
The New York art gallery is installed with an exhibition of approximately 100 of Allan McCollum’s Plaster Surrogates. The objects, which have black centers, white mats, and frames in shades of red, are hung in a single continuous row that wraps around three of the gallery’s walls.
Seated behind a desk along the south wall of the exhibition space are three performers who constitute “The Staff.” They are “busy” with what looks like gallery business hidden behind a low, white, plaster-board wall.
A visitor enters the gallery and makes her way to the center of the exhibition space. As the visitor begins to look at the exhibition, one member of The Staff gets up, walks over and begins to speak
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