Bianca Kennedy, Let Me Draw You a Bath

In her monograph Let me Draw You a Bath, artist Bianca Kennedy takes us into a world where the bathtub is not only a place of relaxation and hygiene, but also becomes a stage for a variety of plots and existential themes. In four series of works, she stages the bathtub as a symbol of birth, sexuality, death, and more. Personal hygiene becomes a secondary matter. In Kennedy’s works, the bathtub becomes a space in which an entire life can take place. Here people not only bathe, but also read, write, drink, smoke, smoke, kiss, laugh, sing, cry, mourn, argue, sleep, shoot, kill and love. The monograph shows that the bathtub is a place of diversity and possibilities, in which a wide variety of actions and emotions find a place. Since 2016, Kennedy has explored the bathtub in various video works and drawings. In doing so, it has created a unique reference space that is culturally and art historically charged. Her works question pictorial traditions and explore the borderline between cinema and video art. Accompanied by an interview with the artist, essays, poems and texts by renowned art experts such as Philipp Bollmann and Dr Thomas Girst. Let me Draw You a Bath is a bilingual publication in German and English that presents the impressive work of Bianca Kennedy in an art-historical context. This monograph invites you to explore the bathtub as a multifaceted place of life and discover new perspectives on art and culture.