Stretching in one continuous line through the four gallery rooms, disregarding walls and disrupting the physical space, is an unbroken wall of rubbish.

This is Hans Schabus’ Remains of the Day which neatly organises the rubbish of the artist and his family from one calendar year into categories like "cardboard" and "clothing".
The neat, linear organisation of the rubbish strikingly contrasts with the way the rubbish-wall messily cuts through the reception area and each white cube gallery space. This disparity suggests there is no neat and easy way to deal with rubbish and seems designed to make the viewer reflect on recycling issues.
The collection forces you to think about how much is thrown away by a single family every year. What struck me was the inclusion of items that can't be recycled and those easily forgettable disposable items such as toothbrushes and pens. The relatively low number of broken glass jars and bottles highlights the numerous items that are in perfect condition, conveying the wastefulness of our society.
To manoeuvre through the rooms, reach each space and view different sections of the wall, visitors need to step over the precariously built lines of bottles and jars. This feels like sacrilege, jarring with the traditional notion that you can't touch art because of its antiquity and value.
Yet Schabus is giving a fresh value to rubbish which would otherwise join the heap of a landfill. In using the rubbish to create art he has given it another life and effectively recycled it.
This is thought-provoking art that has been designed with a real purpose. There is little excuse to miss Remains of the Day, as it is viewable from both inside and out, requiring the minimal effort of merely walking past the gallery to view it.

Four stars