This is the catalogue of the 1996 exhibition by Robert Gober at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). In 1993, Robert Gober was invited by MOCA to create a site-specific installation. For two years Gober worked exclusively on this project. The installation’s central component is a life-size figure of the Virgin Mary. Standing in the middle of the installation, atop a sewer grate, she is pierced by a giant culvert pipe. In the back, rushing water cascades down a staircase into another grate. To the left and the right of the Virgin Mary are two suitcases into which two other grates have been built offering viewers glimpses of a pristine subterranean tide pool and the enigmatic legs of a man holding a diapered baby. The installation is a disquieting reflection on Catholicism, gender, birth, and the metaphorical ambiguity of water.