The heat and humidity became unbearable, they felt their body sweating, flushed, and slightly bloated. Through a window they noticed that people were swimming in the pool they were about to go in, and realized that they could probably see them too. Finally reaching the stairs, they turned out to be too narrow. Their body was too large to move properly in them. The concrete wall scratched their inflated skin while moving within it. 

The Hotel of Constrained Bodies interrogates the violence embedded in standardized Western domestic spaces shaped by Modernity. It aims to transform this violence into awareness, specifically, of how architecture perpetuates matrices of domination. Hidden between four urban programs—a parking garage, a supermarket, a swimming pool, and a theater—the hotel inadvertently welcomes unwilling visitors. They must pass through one of eight fragmented rooms, each one challenging the constructed concept of normalcy. The blurred boundaries between temporary domesticities and urban functions disrupt the comfort of the hotel room and create eight governed intimacies. The postures, attitudes, and emotions of the visitors are dictated by the fragmented room that has engulfed them. In the Last Chance Room, eight subjectivities—eight bodies—come together. They meet, confront each other, and depart from this peculiar hotel to rejoin the city.
Exhibitions : Atelier Bony Mosconi, Paris, February 2017, with Leopold Lambert. Villa Noailles, Hyères, February 2019, «A room Elsewhere» collective exhibition, curated by Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez Barat, Audrey Teichmann. Artips, Paris, February 2020, collective exhibition. France Culture, 2019 March 7th, «En quoi l’architecture modèle-t-elle notre manière d’occuper l’espace ?».