‘Porcelain’ is made up of fifteen laser engraved bathroom tiles which depict mise-en-scenes of women within the space of the bathroom, derived from films spanning across various genres and time periods. The work investigates the bathroom as a filmic space, often being emblematic of vulnerability and intervention into one’s privacy. I chose to highlight the various tropes which tend to ruminate within the bathroom such as female objectification and voyeurism, violence against women within the horror genre and female contemplation. Narratively, the private and intimate space of the bathroom is employed by filmmakers as an area in which climax and eruption occurs through confrontation, inspection and exposure. The tension between ‘privacy’ and ‘intervention’ within the space is further emphasised through the etching of the tiles, which provides a degree of invisibility until it is manoeuvred by audiences and shifted under the light, revealing the mise-en-scene’s iconography.
‘Porcelain’
2023, laser engravings on porcelain tiles, (65 x 60 x 9cm)