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Mikhail Karasik

Сортир

Lavatory

St. Petersburg, 2003

465 x 335 mm.

Lavatory by Karasik is “not a quest for answers to

questions on the national character, consciousness,

soul or anything else” but a celebration of public

lavatories as hidden pieces of architecture, the

desolate and repulsive national heritage and personal

nostalgia. On 5 folded sheets (20 pages) of black paper

the authors text has been silkscreened followed by 12

photographs taken by Dmitrii Ulybin. The photographs

are presented additional text without any words. They

speak volumes. The 13 copy edition is bound in black

cardboard covers and has a black cardboard slipcase.