The boys behind Cloaca

Delia Nicholls, Research Curator at MONA tells us how the gallery's own Koen Bros undertook a career in excrement.
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Each day I leave my office in the round house (home to the MONA library), and walk a 40-metre concrete drainpipe into a ‘scatalogical nightmare’. It was here in one of our touring galleries in late November this year I stumbled upon Koen and Koen (aka the Koen bros).

In a mirror-lined gallery, lit with searchlight intensity the Koen Bros were toiling over a series of works by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye.

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