
Budi
2008/20 / by András Böröcz & Robbin Ami Silverberg
Edition of 30 / Archival inkjet printing of text excerpted from “Baal” by Bertolt Brecht, in German and English / Serigraphy by Axelle Editions, NYC / hand stamping & drawing with walnut ink on vellum papers / Dobbin Mill cover papers
Size: 16" x 6"
Budi is a trip along a river through the land of Budi (slang for outhouse in Hungarian). The 'story' begins with Brecht's text that reflects on the wonders of defecation, we travel with a photographer along the river to view this absurd world. With long horizontal pages, many of them foldouts to further extend the landscape, the ‘budi’ world is populated with anthropomorphized outhouses, busy with life and its activities.
In the first days of 2020, we returned to the edition, adding walnut ink highlights and printing an overt scatological component to the bathroom-laden humor. The hand stamped words referring to bodily functions repeat themselves in 5 different languages.