Bathroom Set

The building blocks for this life-size installations are collections of thousands of images from magazines and pop culture ephemera. Dia Mehta Bhupal has built her room piece by piece playing with size and scale, reality and element. Each scrap of paper is cut, rolled and glued forming the thousands of layers that make the papier-mâché habitat. This ordinary scene of a bathroom is strange and familiar at the same time. The effect of its strange materiality flattens its three dimensional form, uniformly presenting the scene as a whole milieu of an image.