Lethal Dose
The project was launched in 2010. The first show was at the exhibition of the same title.
Lethal Dose is an exhibition-installation consisting of three projects: 13 Minutes, Waiting Room, Lemkin Chamber. The individual elements of the project are displayed in one space and there is a link between them. Both formally as well as the broad topic of suspension between life and the moment in which it ends.
13 Minutes
installation view
13 Minutes
video projection [00:13:00, 34cm x 60cm, HD] on the pedestal [91cm]
The record shows pre burial treatment performed on a living man. The character was put in the state of half-coma by means of pharmaceuticals in an amount equal to half the lethal dose.
Recording lasted 13 minutes. So much for supposedly is devoted to the dead man to prepare his body for exposure prior to burial.
The top of the pedestal is at the height on which rested the character at the time of recording. Projection surface is covered with gray, opalescent acrylic paint.
13 Minut video
Lemkin Chamber
book [16cm x 23cm x 4cm] glovebox [100cm x 60cm x 60 cm, PVC, aluminum strips]
The object consists of a book printed in black paint mixed with a highly poisonous substance and the glovebox, made of PVC and aluminum construction.
It is possible to browse the books and change its location inside the chamber. The title refers to the surname of the author of the term genocide.
Lemkin Chamber [detail]
Lemkin Chamber
Waiting Room
two figures [about 135cm x 123cm x 80 cm, PVC, wooden slats, workshop lamp]
The object consists of two figures incumbent on the wooden bench attached to the wall. Natural dimension characters are enclosed in the forms of the PVC-made bags. On the opposite wall there is a workshop lamp, emitting light with a cold temperature color, close to daylight on a cloudy day.
Waiting Room
Waiting Room [detail]