25 Years of Cloaca
Art is Universal and So Is Shit
25 years ago, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Wim Delvoye presented a gigantic installation — measuring 12 metres long, 2 metres high and over 2 metres wide — mimicking the human digestive system: CLOACA. The artwork’s title comes from the Latin verb cluo, ‘to cleanse’, hence the noun cloaca, ‘sewer, drain’. To be precise, a cloaca is ‘the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive (rectum), reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of ma (…)
