Hospitality

While I was in the hospital I saw like people tend to domesticate everything around them. It is important to feel at home, wherever you are. For a TB hospital in Russia it is not strange to meet a patient in a hospital outfit, frying potatoes on a stove which was smuggled in by family members. Of course, this is prohibited, but medical personnel often turn a blind eye to this. I remember, I often personalised everything that surrounded me. For some reason me and my chamber-mates gave the new quartz lamp apparatus the name “Theodore".

"Hospitality" is a project reflecting on long-term hospital experience, where I aim to domesticate medical devices, transforming the typical image of a hospital. This project grew from my previous series “Home sweet hospital” (2019 -2021), where I compared hospital facilities to a common living apartment. At “Hospitality” my focus is on medical equipment. In this parallel universe, boundaries between home and hospital are merged and a drop-counter can meet a home carpet or a test tube rack can become a pot for plants.