Tender Cruelties, 1996

Jacqueline Spedding, Tender Cruelties, 1996. Installation. Ceramic, metal, soap, wood, polyester.

Bathroms, more than any other domestic spaces, bring into focus the body and its excesses. Bathrooms and bodies are locked together in daily rituals of elimination; of hair, dead skin, fingernails and other bodily excretions. Tubs, basins, showers, soap racks, cabinets, mats and towels articulate a flow of activity from which we emerge reinvented. Bathrooms are spaces of retreat and reflection but also of trauma; this installation explores how our bodies shape, and are shaped by, the objects and spaces we inhabit

Next, Sydney College of the Arts, 13-22 Dec, 1996

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