Spatial installation
Part of the exhibition "New Spaces of Intimacy" (Novi prostori intime) in Zagreb Museum of Ethnography, as a result of an interdisciplinary workshop and collaboration exploring intimacy
Authors: Lucija Bogunović, Lucija Kovačević, Jana Mikoč, Eva Rodinis and Domagoj Škrtić
The Bathroom is a space whose layered intimacy results from ambivalent elements by connecting opposites — bodily and mechanical, clean and impure, warm and cold, comfort and discomfort, solitude and togetherness, peace and restlessness, metamorphosis (and) a return to the old.
The installation opens up a space for a moment of introspection by washing the senses with sounds, evocative smells and facing oneself through immersion in reflection. Personal introspection is intertwined with the universal, through the multitude of images and meanings contained in the collected stories. Thus, the bathroom turns from an empty room into a space of reflection — echoing our internal or shared conversations.
In other words, it becomes what we shape from it — with stories, associations and experiences. You only need to peek behind the curtain.
Bathroom stories to be read and uncovered on the curtain
The installation was created as a part of the exhibition "New Spaces of Intimacy" (Novi prostori intime) in Zagreb Museum of Ethnography, as a result of a months-long interdisciplinary workshop and collaboration between five different programmes at the University of Zagreb, discussing new perspectives on intimacy.
