4, Rue Ste Katherine
single channel video
by IVAN
MUDOV
Ivan Moudov’s video shows a city street garbage container used as a
urinal by male individuals of all ages. The basic events of disposing of garbage
take turns with halting individuals who make use of the corners between the
containers and the wall to relief their own urge. It is a sight typical of
every city, and by the shape of the container alone might one guess the exact
location. But that is far from the point, the point is in the reason for the
phenomenon. Beyond the natural calls it is about the subconscious riot against
the rules by which the city individual is obliged to go within the conventionality
of culture and civilisation. The point is after all in the humaneness – a
deeply contradictory notion, in which the understanding of the essence collides
with the judgment of the person.
*exerpt from the text by Diana Popova in the catalogue MAP – Case Study 02