A collaboration with Dalia Husseini & Guilaine Elias.
Location | Beirut, Lebanon
This proposal was done for House of Today's call for designers to think about soap.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, soap has become a very noticeable feature of our daily lives. It is present in both the public and private spheres and often made prominently obvious in all settings. We have imagined setting it up purposely as monuments in public spaces while giving the possibility for everyone to interact with it, by peeling or cutting out small pieces.
Soap now becomes a fundamental but also evolving part of the landscape as its overall shape varies gradually.
We have chosen to place the soap sculptures in symbolic locations, in an attempt to start the trend worldwide. Those places globally benefit from a high media coverage, either because they were significantly affected by the pandemic or due to other sustainable pressing issues. We virtually installed our soap installations in Iran and China, both Covid-19 epicenters, and also in Italy, where it stands as a landmark in the middle of a piazza. Our monument serves as a tribute to the victims on the Copacabana beach, where they were buried, as a protest to the government’s way of handling the situation. It can also be found in slums in Africa, raising awareness on accessibility and shortage of water. Shortage is also more relatable as it was widely experienced with common goods. Our sculptures also stand tall in places like India, where so many rituals involve collectivity and water.
You can even find them as far as Greenland since Covid-19 reached it first.
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