Marieke Peeters

In the immersive installation ‘Orifice’ wallpaper is explored as medium and bodily agent. In the second iteration of this piece an eerie architectural space is constructed through the motion of sewing wallpaper in which stitches come to resemble patched skin. Informed by horror fiction and genre aesthetics this spatial work disintegrates the domestic as it is suspended between comfort and horror. The corridor enacts a liminal bodily orifice that is haunted by the gothic vessel of the wallpaper in horror fiction, such as in the short story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which isolates wallpaper as agent of chaos and embodies a retrieval of power. The first iteration of this installation was created and presented as a performative piece at DOOResidency in Zaandam, 2021.