I den afdøde kritiker Jacques Breusses bo fandtes følgende verbale optakt til et fotografisk værk, franskmanden havde i tankerne. At projektet var særdeles konkret, tyder nedenstående på, og som supplerende vidnesbyrd figurerer “otte ruller film ang. shitty toilets” på hans revisors udgiftsoptegnelser. I de enorme arkiver, undertegnede løbende katalogiserer, er ingen fotografier dukket op, endsige ruller med ueksponeret film, men de antages at eksistere i stort antal. Enten på et af Breusses mange landsteder, eller gravet ned på nogle af de “intellektuelle mausolæer”, han som regel etablerede i vrede. Jeg har valgt at offentliggøre fragmentet uden billeder, fordi det kan stå af sig selv.
- Christian Møller Nielsen, litterær eksekutor for Jacques Breusse. Århus, 9. april.
”Shitty Toilets”
Forord til en bog om menneskets essens
Af Jacques Breusse
Toilettet er det sted, mennesket altid har bevaret som sit eget, private sted. Besørgelsen af føden gennem kroppen og ud gennem endetarmen har til alle tider været forbundet med ensomhed. I gamle dage gik man afsides for at afføre. I dag er badeværelset med dets opvarmede gulv og avisholder måske privatlivets sidste bastion. Jeg vil nødig bruge ordet ”eksploderet” i forbindelse med en udredning af toilettet som kulturelt essentielt fænomen, men det er ikke desto mindre, hvad der er sket med den tidsmængde, vi bruger på toiletbesøg – den er eksploderet. Konklusionen er klar – toilettet er blevet det sidste holdepunkt vi har for at bevare os selv i den støjende verden, der omgiver os. Nogle mennesker dør på toilettet, fordi det først er der, kroppen vænner sig til sig selv, og sender organismen i brædderne med hjerteanfald.
Toilettet har gennem mange år imødegået saneringer og affyring af friværdi. Efter samtalekøkkenets indtog skal toilettet gøres indbydende til kontemplation og selvvalgt, afgrænset isolation. Her kan vi uforstyrret se på vores egen krop, vænne os til den, røre ved den. Og vigtigst – tømme den. Uden at nogen kigger. Hvis man kommer helskindet ud fra toilettet, uden at være ombragt af kroppens behov for selvbevidsthed, er det som et mere balanceret menneske. De, der opfatter toiletgang som noget, der skal ignoreres og fortsat tabuiseres, lever et liv af ustabil higen efter noget, der måske nok er foran dem, men som ikke er menneskeligt. Toiletbesøg og kropslig tømning er forudsætningen for balance, fordi det er den eneste reelle nulstilling, der efterhånden er muligt for det moderne netværksmenneske. Den, der ikke kan tale åbent om kropslig tømning, kan slet ikke tale om mennesket. Hvis ikke vi tillader os selv tømning, så vi kan starte dagen på default, når vi aldrig tilbage til springbrættet. Så taber vi stille og roligt os selv i det illusoriske og dybt omsonse forsøg på hver dag at nå højere og højere.
For at minde menneskeheden om dens oprindelse og for en gangs skyld vise den medlidenhed, gik jeg, Jacques Breusse, i gang med at dokumentere toilettet som integreret livsnødvendighed og visuelt formalisere tømningen som grundvilkår. Naturligvis ved totalt at ignorere friværditænkningen og den nye toiletdoktrins trofæmentalitet, og søge de mest ødelagte, desintegrerede, uhumske lokummer. Kun dokumenterende med et billigt kompaktkamera, hvis nøgternhed bedst foreviger toilettet præcist så beskidt og sygeligt overbelyst, det er. Et toilet behøver ikke imponere nogen, for det er der bare. Det samme er fødsel, død, blodige massestyrt i Tour de France og nøgne mennesker med opkast drivende ned ad brystkassen. Alle fundamentale og nødvendige ting i denne verden er usle, grimme og uindbydende, og ses bedst gennem kameraets indifferente søger. Oven i det er jeg en ussel fotograf, måske den usleste af alle, men netop derfor er jeg den højst kvalificerede kronikør af toilettets usle udseende og – ikke mindst – usle funktion.
Med denne erkendelse in mente begyndte jeg at fotografere uindbydende, indsovsede, svampebefængte og dermed tilpas smertefuldt realistiske toiletter, jeg har mødt – og møder – på mine rejser.
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