Deux mêmes choses ne peuvent être pareilles
2012, disposed bin

For the seventh consecutive year, in collaboration with the Domaine national du Louvre et des Tuileries, FIAC will stage an outdoor exhibition located in the renowned Tuileries Garden. The growing interest for this annual event among galleries and artists - together with the exceptional beauty of the site - has enabled us to bring together each year some two dozen projects, including sculptures, installations and ephemeral creations, deployed in the garden's fountains, basins, lawns, alleys and groves.

gerlach en koop is a collective of two Dutch artists. They live and work between The Hague and Brussels. They are not confined to any medium, but use whatever is effective, or alternatively its ineffectiveness to their artistic benefit. ‘No two things can be the same’ is a sculpture that involves two existing rubbish bins. One of the two bins is discarded into the other. A minimal intervention. In the description following the title of the piece, only the one that is thrown away is mentioned implying that the other bin actually functions as a plinth to support the first. It also means that the one on top can be considered art a ready-made, while the other one is still part of the city’s public furniture, that is to say: part of life.