Self-portrait as Rubbish Bin is a faultless, yet incongruous, bronze replica of an ordinary plastic bin. Here, Landy manages to transform a common object with no artistic value into a perfect artwork using a noble material, bronze - echoing ideas explored in earlier works such as the giant Art Bin at the South London Gallery (2010), in which he encouraged artists to destroy some of their creations, Scrapheap Services in 1995, a monumental allegory for the discarding of useless human beings, and even Break Down (2001), when he meticulously orchestrated the destruction of every single of his own belongings.

Self Portrait As Rubbish Bin, a "Monument to Consumption and Waste", playfully placed in the park to mimic a standard bin but to exist as an artwork, continues Landy's research and questioning of our society's obsessive consumption and overproduction as well as his fascination for issues of artistic production, circulation, destruction and marketing of art.