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Thermae
浴場
2023
Tiles, towels, soaps
433 x 331 x 76.5 cm
浴場
2023
Tiles, towels, soaps
433 x 331 x 76.5 cm
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"Thermae" (2023), an on-site installation on the second floor, attempts to provide a larger space for people to cleanse themselves of war. In ancient Roman bathhouses, people could bathe together regardless of status or class; in modern Japanese bathhouses, gang members with tattoos are often refused entry to maintain peace. However, despite "Thermae" being a place of relaxation, the symbol "θ"—used in ancient Roman murals to denote the death of gladiators in combat—embedded in the tiles at the bottom disrupts this romance, turning the bathhouse into an arena where peace and slaughter are only a thin line apart. The visual also echoes nuclear plant reactors.
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〈浴場〉（2023）是在展場二樓現地搭建的一座浴池裝置，試圖提供人們一個更大的場所來清洗戰爭。在古時的羅馬浴場中，人類得以放下身份與階級一同沐浴；在更現代的日本浴場中，有紋身幫派份子會被拒絕進入，以保持浴場中的和平。然而，〈浴場〉雖作為一種休憩場所，池底由磁磚排列出的符號「θ」－古羅馬角鬥士在競技中死亡後壁畫上標示戰死的符號－卻打破了這樣的浪漫，浴場瞬間成為競技場，和平與殺戮僅有一線之隔，其視覺也與核電廠反應爐相呼應。
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