6: HOTEL
The grid’s mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction).
- Rosalind Krauss, Grids
Pink bedspreads you say
are not pleasing to you
yet you sit very straight
till the pictures are through.
Two suitcases watch you like dogs.
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
Get Unready With Me
The last decade has seen an unprecedented rise in what is meant to be a close, unfiltered relationship between those with a celebrity platform and the people who follow them.
A Conspicuous Abyss
How the aesthetics of luxury bunkers both disguise & reveal the persistence of American myths; from the Survival Condo Project to the Madonna Inn, California.
‘The Beige’
Exploring the role & representation of beige, in the hotel space and beyond.
Lake Sevan: Monks and Mandelstam
A ninth-century Armenian monastery and a modernist writers’ resort make a striking pair.
From a pile of stuff: Uranus in Taurus
Uranus in Taurus indicates a departure from glamour & success in the ways we’ve known it in the past.
Fluffy White Bathrobes
An exploration of cultural depictions of hotels, and the workings of fantasy and seduction therein.
