Work of Art or Load of Crap?

When you see the above picture, what do you think the block is made of?

Did you make a guess yet?

Ready for the answer? It's CRAP! Literally, a bunch of crap! Santiago Sierra made 21 Anthropometric modules made of human feces. Each of these 215 x 75 x 20cm modules were made and collected from Delhi and Jaipur, India. The people from Sulabh International sponsored the project by working on it without any compensation. (Are they crazy??). They collected human fecal matters (I am shuddering just thinking of how they collect these things, not to mention slapping them on and making them into blocks), and let it rest for three years, mixed with Fevicol, an agglutinative plastic, and dried in wooden moulds. The stench must be horrifying! But apparently after three years, shit is no longer shit, but it is "equivalent to earth" from a sanitary point of view.

According to Sierra, "workers of the sanitary movement Sulabh International of India are mostly scavengers who, by birth, have to undertake the physically and psychologically painful task of collecting human fecal matter, being charged with the blames of a previous life of bad deeds."

The display is currently being displayed at the Lisson Gallery in London for the first time.

So... work of art? Or a Load of Crap?