The Trench Fart

Accession

FA.078

Medium

Tinned beef, mud, exhaustion

Duration

Sustained

Provenance

Letters home, censored

Produced in conditions of extraordinary hardship and received, by everyone present, as the single funniest thing that had happened in nine weeks. The work is a reminder that this art form does its most important work not in comfortable rooms but in terrible ones. You are the person who breaks the silence when a silence has gone on far too long, and you have never been thanked for it properly.