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Room 9 – Cecile Heystek
The first thing one notices in this room is the wooden television; it’s on a stand in the place where you’d normally find a real television. A wooden kettle on an anthracite stove creates a similar ‘out-of- place’ effect, as do the wooden pillows above the bed. It’s almost as if these everyday objects were collected from Pinocchio’s home and brought into the world in the hopes that they would become real. The unexpectedness of these installations makes you stop and appreciate their placement, even though they are subtle. A room frozen in time.
Room 17 – Griet van der Meulen
Recycled material in the artworks point to a sustainability theme, however, the piece’s dark colours and abstract shapes hint at a morbid, almost disturbed undercurrent. Like some of the other rooms in the hotel, the art in this one is not overwhelming: it waits to be discovered. What stands out was the text on one of the canvasses, “For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to the man. All things are connected.”
Room 20 – Martli Jansen van Rensburg
This otherwise ordinary room is brought to life by the bright back wall: it’s covered with an 18th century pattern in luminous coral, which was silkscreened by hand onto the wallpaper. Glass plates, arranged horizontally over the first layer of wallpaper, have been made using traditional glassblowing techniques. The first layer of wallpaper represents an ordinary pattern design from nature. The glass highlights the pattern and shows that there is more than meets the eye.
Room 21 – Debbie Cloete
The honeymoon suite looks like it should be in one of those kitsch hotels from the ‘70s (the Madonna Inn in California comes to mind). Everything is pink: pink wallpaper, pink walls, pink scatter cushions, pink bed throw, pink fan blades, pink lampshades, pink side cabinet drawers, pink proteas, pink water glasses and a pink bathroom. If you can handle all that pink, then this room will make for a truly unforgettable night.
Room 23 – Anthony Dalton
Known as ‘the pancake room’ thanks to the pancake installations on the wall. Beige and white is the colour theme with hints of pink including a 1-metre-long pink Daschund pillow that would make for a great cuddle buddy. Conventional objects are transformed into personal icons in a Pop Art tongue-in-cheek style.
Room 27 – Sarah Stapelberg
Guests will certainly spend all their time trying to count the arrows. There are big arrows and small arrows, arrows on the pillows and arrow shaped pillows, an arrow on the carpet and arrows on the crockery. Not all the arrows point in the same direction and one of the arrow pillows is a different colour from the rest. Everyone follows a different direction and a different routine so the artist hopes that each guest’s experience in Room 27 is unique.
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