THE LAUNDRY

“YOU OPEN YOUR EYES FINDING YOURSELF IN A LAUNDRY. WEARING NOTHING BUT YOUR OWN SKIN AND A MASK. SCRUBBING YOUR BODY FOR HOURS UNTIL BLEEDING, AND YOU REALIZE, YOU ARE STILL DIRTY. FRUSTRATED BY THE UTOPIA OF YOUR OWN DESIRE”

Two women stuck in a Laundry. They are here to wash themselves from the stigmas society imposes on them.

THE LAUNDRY as a reflection of us, as human beings, locked in and out in our tiny worlds. Confronted with our fears, toxic ideals and desires. Being lost, confronted with the freak in us, slowly dissolving and at some point realizing that we are not alone. That we’re all in this one. That we are all freaks, human beings, with fears, demons and the desire to be loved and accepted as who we are. We are all humans in the same world.

Retelling a story means not only to change the perspective but to dismantle the clicheé by revealing the multifarious possibilities out there.

The Laundry is a contemporary piece of art, created to serve the reality of this society and our feelings during the crisis of the Corona epidemic. It resolved out of artists from all over the world coming together and bringing up all their creative energies for this project in order to create this story and finally feel themselves as artists again. To overcome the feeling of not being able to create - the strongest and most important urge of an artist. And to finally tell or retell stories again.

The whole project was developed and finalized during this crisis.

Showing: Alex Feller and Gabrielle Deydier

Creative Direction: Debby Caplunik

Creative Direction & Photography: Johanna Berghorn

Assistant: Cornelius Reitmayr

Set Designer: Cosima Vellenzer

Props Master: Fausto Torelli

Set Dresser: Ann-Christin Hansen

Light: Caspar Brog

Costume: Christina Van Zone

Costume Assist: Firat Baruc

Protehese & Make-up: Juliette Ruetz

Make-up Assist: Celine Korrak, Anina Lehmann