DO NOT DISTURB
Door hangers, acrylic on cut-out paper, collage, 36 shapes, about 50 x 120 cm each, abandonned hotel, 14 Avenue des Peupliers, Cesson-Sévigné, Fr.
This intervention pastes oversized “do not disturb” signs onto each of the hotel’s room doors. These are scaled-up silhouettes modeled after the classic hotel placard. Painted in blue, red, green, and black, the signs break up the repetitive rhythm of the façade and transform the grid of doors into a kind of visual code.
These shapes reference both the institutional signage of hospitality and its legal undertones—gestures of privacy, refusal, and control. In the context of this now-vacant hotel, they become monuments to absence. The doors signal nothing and no one. The signs no longer serve the living. Instead, they expose the silence of the space. Each placard is a stand-in for a past occupant, a sealed memory.
The materiality matters here. Each piece is hand-cut and painted on paper, a fragile yet deliberate gesture that contrasts with the concrete austerity of the building.
S.Park
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