In the piss (1997)

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A picture by Gilber & George using magnified urine as a background. See more here

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Gilbert & George's bodily pictures

Spunk, blood, piss, shit, spit

A piece about two artists who challenged taboos and social “diktats” by magnifying the sometimes disgusting materiality of the body

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Spunk blood piss shit spit (1996)

A picture by Gilbert & George containing some of the well known, but unaccepted components of our bodies - of course, all magnified. See more here
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Spit naked (1997)

A picture by Gilbert & George, portraying the duo against a blood-and-spit background. See more here
Image: Rembrandt van Rijn

Plassende boerenvrouw; Plassende man (Rembrandt

Rembrandt: Portraits of a pissing farmer's wife and a pissing man, Het Rembrandthuis Collection.
Image: Rutger de Jong

Collecting tanks

This is were we collect all the urine donated by generous visitors with full bladders. One one side rain water, on the other pee: their combination is the fertiliser for our plants
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Two dancers urinating on stage in The crying body

Shot by Maarten Vanden Abeele. See more here
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A doctor examining urine

Oil by Trophîme Bigot, first half of the 17th century, now at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)

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