The world that surrounding the adorers is disenchanted. The body is judged, consumed, abused. They look for then an elsewhere. A refuge which welcomes them and orders them to orientate their daily rites. In the depths of the forest, there exists this other place so much desired. The hotel is an isolated enclosure with regulated access. Each adorer receives a letter and a ticket that allows him to make the journey to the hotel. By taking the shuttle, he crosses the city and reaches the forest.
In the hotel, they left individual identity because experience reveals them. It gives meaning to their actions and attitudes towards the fellow human beings. Thus, the hotel is organized around rituals lived in duo. The figure of the duo is important because it allows them to refine their perception through the other. Indeed, the glance reveals as much to the observer on himself, as to the one who is looked at. Beyond the look, it is a matter of taking care of each other in a mutual respect. In this exchange, the adorers have roles stated in the form of served and servant which determine their actions in the hotel. The status attributed to each one is ephemeral because it lasts only the time of one day.
Adoration resides in the fragment: the obsession of a fold of skin, the curve of an eyelash. Beyond the skin, it is the material that acts with it that creates wonder, blending into each other in a drape, an ornate wall, a woodwork. But adoration also resides in the symbol, what it evokes and provokes when it is ritualized. The body is revealed in each room of the hotel but the nudity under its sensual airs is only perceived through the prism of the sacred. Only its cult counts, pleasure being postponed until later.
The plan of the hotel has been thought for the worshippers according to a double system allowing the servant and the served to interact without ever crossing each other. This system exploits the thickness which a peephole to observe the other, a dumbwaiter for the lunch, a a hidden staircase... The plan adjusts itself between balance and disproportion, plays with symmetry without really embodying it, to create a to create an enfilade of rooms which which welcomes the scenes.
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