Looking back, the bourgeois home of the late 19th century as a setting for bathing and cleansing rituals now appears on first sight to be something of a paradox. But a second look is more consistent: rituals of social life had a major influence on the typology of the upper middle-class home and led to architectural conventions that are marked by scenographic elements.
Conversely, the ritual meaning of these "sanitary parasites" is enhanced. New rituals are generated for the observer of these pictures - the scale is 1:1 - and modes of behaviour that have been passed down, connotated through architectural elements, overlap. The viewer's confrontation by a room full of convention that is manipulated by small actions and thus overlaid with new functions, reveals the subversive strategy both in the architectural suggestion and in the chosen form of representation. The large photographs, which were taken on a large format camera, then processed using Photoshop and framed in gold frames, oscillate between real suggestion and virtual mind game, manifesting an architecture that is somewhere between convention and subversion.

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