2026
LAINIE ETTEMA
The bathroom functions as a site of shame and empowerment, isolation and connection, and both digital and physical bodily manipulation. Associated with the abject, it is a place of filth and bodily fluids, yet also a space of preparation for the patriarchal gaze, nurturing, self-care, and social ritual. While the bathroom is where bodies are altered to meet expectations of femininity—to be clean, smooth, made up—it can also offer liberation, solitude, reflection, and moments of vulnerability and connection among women.
Slippage transforms the gallery into a surreal environment where body, technology, and bathroom architecture merge. Drawing on theories of the male gaze, chromophobia, abjection, and digital space, the installation explores feminist potential within fragmentation and hybridity; a place where boundaries dissolve and bodies refuse legibility.
Slippage
Installation: oil on canvas, silicone, ceramic, synthetic hair, PVC pipe
























