Marcelle
Site-specific Installation
Berlin, 2024
Site-specific Installation
Berlin, 2024
Inspired by Histoire de l’œil (1928) by Georges Bataille, this work centers on the character of Marcelle, who hides inside a wardrobe to masturbate during an orgy, reaching the point of urinating from pleasure.
The installation features a wardrobe reassembled inside-out at the center of a room, whose floor is covered by a waterbed that reflects its architecture. Through this metaphysical act of inversion between inside and outside, the external world—made of light and sound—is reduced to a minimal space. The interior, in turn, unfolds into the room, and we find ourselves all inside Marcelle’s flooded wardrobe, experiencing both the pleasure and discomfort of a hiding place.
In an act of apparent modesty, Marcelle withdraws into a space where social and sexual norms, as well as architectural rules, cease to apply; here, what is written as shame can be read as power, and the confined space of a hiding place opens up to a universe of possibilities.
Karl Hofer Prize exhibition at UDK, Berlin, 2024.
Graduation work at Universität der Künste Berlin, 2024.
