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Zbigniew Libera
CORRECTING DEVICE
"Placebo"
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PLACEBO - EXHIBITION ROOM "Placebo" - a pseudo-product from the pharmaceutical empire offers a remedy for everything: pressure, melancholy, a psychedelic opening of the perception gates, etc... Libera's panacea is reminiscent of a 'cure-all' from traveller's tales in savage lands. Here they gave the 'cure-all' to ill aborigines, which the traveller administered with great solemnity but was in reality simply water and sugar.
Placebo Libera's suppository has similar features; the packaging lauds the fact that the viewer can fully appreciate them visually - in the exhibition. Their effect , to a large degree, depends on the mood of the person taking one through the anal passage and into the human body, implies a therapeutic dignity - like enema in the Middle Ages. Consumption begins at the place of excretion.

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