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Untitled (Bins) - 2008
three modified trash bin, acryl glass
110 x 100 x 95 cm / 43 1/4 x 39 1/4 x 37 1/2 in
Courtesy Frieze Art Fair, London.
The project consists of three 1100 litre standard ‘Eurobins’ (the familiar street refuse containers otherwise known as wheelie bins) whose sides had been cut away and replaced with windows of clear polycarbonate, thus making them visibly incorrect and their contents visible to everyone. It created a kind of grand though rudimentary behavioural experiment in which citizens generated a transparent reflection on consumption, disposability and recent municipal waste incentives, at the point where personal assets were thrown ‘away’. Importantly, although the bins were encountered within close proximity to a major art event, they were not visibly “framed” as art works. No plinth, no label and no sign indicated that they were anything other than functional bins, plausibly located where one was leaving the event, perhaps ready to shed unwanted detritus.
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