public bathroom

this is the website companion piece to an installation made at tender art space in west concord massachusetts in 2023. all elements are interactive. to view images of the installation and read curatorial text, follow the link here.

The Tender Art Space
West Concord, Massachusetts

Let’s explore the public bathroom and all of its strangeness. Replicated fixtures, misplaced. The space invites everyone’s most private selves, becoming a kind of shared intimacy. The public bathroom is a petri dish for all sensoria — fragrant smells, what you touch, see, hear. One of the slipperiest places.

In Public Bathroom, Kenzy Cannon combines sculpture and installation to produce a familiar environment. Recognizable forms emerge, shrouded in plaster. A website extends the piece into virtual realms. What are your memories here? Water parks, gas stations, airports, in the train? I dream of the public bathroom often, usually the floor is wet and I am disgusted. Are you intrigued? Are you relieved? Feeling everything in the public bathroom.

text by Maya Rubio