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It Has to be apart\ it has to be alone
In Where There's Life There’s Soap, I gather recurring water, a dried towel, and a piece of unsettled soap to revisit the nostalgic atmosphere of Victoria Baths—frozen in time since its closure in 1993.
If Victoria Baths is a composition of steam, scent, sweat, and soap, this installation uses materials to evoke the intangible sensations of human skin, residue, and cleaning—recreating a neglected changing room as a site-specific installation.
Title adapted from Where There’s Life, There’s Soap, Bermondsey Borough Council Health Department, London, 1933.
Music from Bengawan Solo by Rebecca Pan.
Rebecca Pan Bengawan Solo_shower white noise
I. water droplets
II. the pool
III. soap
IV. clean * * * *
V. A misty shower glass:
It's important to clean outside as well as in
VI. a woman singing in the shower
Spring Fest, Victoria Bath, Manchester. Photo by Long Tse
III. doorway
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