Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| de Kaplany, Hajna

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

I took a suitcase with some 20kgs of earth on the plane to Genève and the train to Lausanne. In the gallery I made an installation which related to the work of minimal artist Donald Judd. Instead of perspex and aluminium shapes I used 3 old drawers that I found at a garbage dump. I filled 2 buckets with water of Lac Leman. I stepped into the bottom drawer of my Donald Judd piece and proceeded to open the suitcase. I grabbed some of the earth inside and put it in the drawer above my head. Then I took some water from a bucket and poured it in the top drawer.
(22 June 2007)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

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		Fashion model and beauty queen Hajna de Kaplany born as Hajna Piller 28 August 1962 (x) stabbed and soaked in nitric acid by Geza de Kaplany aka The Acid Doctor in San Jose, United States. 30 September 1962 (-) dies after 33 days of agony after her husband Geza soaked her with a mixture of hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acid in San Francisco, United States.