Culprits of Contamination
‘Where there is dirt, there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a system of ordering and classification of matter’ (Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, 1934)
Considering the socially constructed nature of ideas around both ‘dirt’ (Douglas, 1966) and ‘madness’ (Foucault, 1961), this project moves back and forth between self and society, reflecting on and exposing the interplay between the two.