Luchezar Boyadjiev

How many nails in the mouth? Self-portrait with 2 kg 12.5 cm long nails in the mouth, 1992-1995

digital print on paper
80 x 60 cm
edition 3+2AP

The “How many nails in a mouth?” work started as an inner turmoil expressing pencil-on-paper drawing made on the terrace in front of the Albertina Museum in Vienna in summer of 1992. Later on it evolved into “Homage to Günther Uecker”, part of cycle of homage(s) first shown at “Orient/ation”, the 4th Istanbul Biennial curated by René Block in 1995.