Maria's Bedroom
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An experimental interactive installation developed in collaboration with Emma Crombé, Harry Van Noten and Bruna Martins. An explorative exercise taking shape at CAMPO Nieuwpoort ‘s residency room, Maria’s Bedroom questions the dynamics of privacy: what is it to see and to be seen? How can you measure the temporality and presence of an (not so) empty room? How do you react when you’re allowed into a bedroom that is inhabited by the invisible presence of its owner? Are we merely voyeurs of each other’s lives?
Through a narrative development, Maria came to be: a performer in her 30s, Latin American native Spanish speaker, lives in Berlin but has been touring Belgium and France through residency programs, focuses on monologue and one-woman shows, practice and explorations focus on mythology and its feminist(re)interpretations exploring the diverse meanings of myth, playing different facets of stories of how women are and have been seen throughout time.
A caricature, Maria plays the ghost protagonist of her own bedroom, inviting the viewer in. Through notes and reference texts, viewers were led upstairs into a dark room and invited to discover the space through their flash. Questioning the presence of the female body in art and lack thereof of women artists in creative spaces through clothing and featured art pieces, voyeurism was elevated to a curatorial and scenographic method.
Featured art pieces by Emma Crombé
Curatorial exercise developed under the curriculum of Curatorial Studies 2025/26,supervised by Yann Chateigné Tytelman and Benny Nemer
