Shoe Bathers
Shireen Taweel
Gallery 2
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Shoe Bathers conjures up the sensory relationship between body, spirit, and kinship. The warmth of a conversation is ambient and eloquent, a rite to the intimate relationships developed and formed by community and family within the many varied spaces of the bath house both public and private.
The state of transition evoked through the ritual of bathing is recorded in the shaping and forming of piles of handmade olive oil soap by bodies constantly moving back and forward between physical and spiritual centres. Two pairs of engraved and pierced bathing shoes central to the work signal the bath house's long lineage as a ritualised space of cleansing.
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Shoe Bathers is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW