V&A Museum- Locker Room... not what you really expect

Fig 1. locker room in sketchbook (author's own)

 

Bridget Smith, 'Glamour Studio (Locker Room)'- 1999. This piece first stood out for me because of the quality of the image, but it remained in my memory for comical reasons. It is as if Bridget Smith took the innocence away from the idea of the locker room, or in another sense, she pointed out the already taken innocence. 'The locker room is not just a place to warm up for a sporting activity, but it is a constructed set used in the pornography industry to stage a particular sexual fantasy'. I bet you're never going to look at a locker room in the same way again, ey?

 

I like the fact that she took an image and stripped it away from its common context, we could use this approach on other settings too, and create ideas from it, for example, a kitchen is often thought of as a place of food production, filled with delicious tastes and smells, but what if we strip that thought away and replace it with the idea 'a psychopath's operation room where he experiments on live human bodies?' The idea may not be appealing, but it is an example of an alternative to the traditional thought processes that link to a kitchen. This alternative kitchen concept could be used in a horror film, the same way a locker room is used in pornography.