Cleansing Box : used clothing, coal tar, wire mesh, H210xW225xD220cm, 1997, Utsunomiya Museum of Art / JAPAN

These heaps of second-hand garment which are dyed black with coal tar may remind us of a coal seam or a huge mass of charcoal As activated carbon cleans the air and water, the carbon box which is made of used clothes may filter the stream of human history.
 
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