The URINAL is an endurance performance that reanimates the readymade. 

A toilet stands on top of a 115 cm high plinth.
Sit on the toilet for 6-7 hours each day.
Glass bottles of water are placed around on the plinth.
Drink water and urinate.
A wall of piss visibly fills up on the front side of the plinth each day.

In direct dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, the performance revisits the readymade through its intended use, transforming it into a living fountain. What the work proposes is to elevate to the dignity of art a living bodily process.
Reversing familiar imagery in art history of women connected to water sources – from sexualized mythical nymphs to religious female allegories of purity positioned beside springs, wells and fountains – the work reconfigures the female body not as decoration or symbol, but as source.

Inviting viewers into a decontextualized private act, the performance monumentalizes an intimate, mundane moment, prompting critical reflection on the commodification of private life in our times. Staged as a familiar everyday scene – sitting on top of a toilet contemplating the state of the world – the work subtly points to the exploitation of the most private areas of our lives driven by surveillance capitalism and the logics of social media. Increasingly subject to spectatorship, intimate boundaries dissolve under conditions in which attention, behaviour, and personal routine are continuously monitored and monetized. 

Life as a product. Life as a readymade “object”, there to be consumed.