Private Cabin, 2001
Video cabin with interior decoration, video and surveillance camera

Aarhus Kunstbygning, Lunds Konsthall and Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

Shows the result of an examination of the relationship between what is private and what is public. Here sexuality is explored as an entity that has clearly moved from an intimate sphere to an increasingly general area of exploration, not least with regard to the spread of pornography.

A video cabin, the type one can encounter in red-light districts, has been set up for the public to use. However, one quickly becomes aware that something is amiss. Instead of the expected porno film, an image of the selfsame room one is sitting in tones onto the screen.

One sees a man enter, place a cassette in the video and then start to masturbate. The obvious discomfort of witnessing an act that is normally restricted to the privacy of one’s own home is only reinforced further by the sneaking suspicion that one, too, is being watched because how otherwise could the film have come into existence.