Santiago Sierra

Santiago Sierra is an artist with a social conscience, whose work highlights the capitalist exploitation of labour, though by paying marginalised individuals to perform demeaning tasks the artist has become a part of the system he is critiquing.

His latest work involved Indian scavengers collecting dried human excrement and moulding it into twenty-one large blocks, which are currently on show with six other works at the Lisson Gallery in London (30th November 2007 until 19th January 2008). The show is titled New Works, accompanied by a catalogue titled Seven Works. Collectively, the excrement blocks are known as Twenty-One Anthropometric Modules Made From Human Faeces By The People Of Sulabh International India.