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  Burning Dustbin – Monument of Liberty |

Burning Dustbin – Monument of Liberty was accomplished for the event called White Night, Night of Contemporary Art, Košice 2012. White Night is an event offering space for presentation of light art in public space. In this work, I opened the topic of street lighting by means of object in which I combined a classical dustbin with a flame taken from the motif of the Statue of Liberty. It is a combination of the “high” (flame of the Statute of Liberty monument) and the „low“ (dustbin). It is something that functionally serves for waste and a part of something that serves as a reference point, for navigation. Monument of Liberty shows the flame illumination the path to freedom, metaphor of freedom or memory of the past. Dustbin represents the object that is being filled, emptied and that changes its position on wheels. It is the place of deposition, discarding, storing useless things, boxes, containers waiting for recycling, renewal. Burning dustbin is a sign of rebellion; it serves as a barricade during demonstrations in the world or as a means of protection against violence, firing. It is a kind of alternative, flexible monument of liberty, light, resistance and friendship. Since the object has an autonomous built-in source of power and it is on wheels – it was up to people where they installed it during White Night 2012.