Human Toilet Revisited

© Sarah Lucas, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Image credit: Tate

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Smoking her `first fag of the day` the artist squats on the toilet. Lucas often uses intimate self-portraits to undermine conventional images of femininity. The toilet is a recurring theme in her work. A social leveller, it functions as a reminder of one of our most basic human needs. Lucas presents cigarettes as another type of need. The idea of smoking as a desire which leads to self-destruction is explored in a number of her works. Uncharacteristically, she doesn''t look directly into the camera, but seems caught off guard; vulnerable rather than defiant.

Tate

Art UK Founder Partner

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Title

Human Toilet Revisited

Date

1998

Medium

digital print on paper

Measurements

H 158 x W 153.6 cm

Accession number

P78299

Acquisition method

Purchased 1999

Work type

Photograph

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