Setting out to depict every aspect of the way women experience hotels, Cesarine has curated the work of over 20 female-identifying artists in building rooms 2348 and 2350 of the fair. Kat Toronto’s (a.k.a. Miss Meatface) polaroids featuring kinky sex games, and Cesarine’s own neon signs reading “LOVER,” “LUST,” and “YES,” riff on the positive experiences one might have in a hotel room. But her exhibit doesn’t skirt past the possibility of violence having gone down during the visits of past guests.
Katrina Majkut’s ominous cross stitch rendering of a “sexual assault evidence collection kit” hangs on the front door of the room, greeting guests as they enter. And a plush, old-school handgun lies on the bedside table. Pretty much everywhere you look in (Hotel) XX, there’s an intimate story being told through watercolor or weaving about all the bad and good stuff that happens behind closed doors in an unfamiliar space.
