TOTART: Natalia Abalakova & Anatoly Zhigalov
PURIFICATION
Action
1983, November
The work was made by the initiative of Italian conceptual artist Paolo Barrile. He sent two packages of alleged pure earth from Pompeya excavation, asking to perform any ecological act to purify any polluted city location. One package was eaten by artists in order to make an act of selfpurification.