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RUNA
ISLAM
Room
Service
20
January - 26 February 2006
Space
5 at CAC Málaga is the venue for Room Service
(2001), an installation by Runa Islam. The piece
features two videos shown in a recreation of a
hotel room. Visitors can either sit or lie down
to watch the two short films, lasting nine and
eleven minutes respectively, shot by this young
artist, born in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The
installation Room Service features the
recreation of a hotel room similar to the one
where the two videos now being shown at the Contemporary
Art Centre in Málaga were originally filmed. The
hotel is simultaneously portrait, event and situation.
In it, we see the two maids who star in the videos.
Instead of working, the pair enjoy all the services
they are employed to provide to the hotel guests.
Runa
Islam produced Room Service, which is at
once a film, an artwork and a performance, in
response to a commission for a work based on a
room in the Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpool Street,
London. In it, the artist explores the idea of
work through the maids' unusual behaviour, along
with certain symbolic connotations that can be
gleaned from the situation. Discussing Room
Service, Runa Islam mentions both Buñuel's
Diary of a Chambermaid and sexual comedies, or
farces that attach such importance to the fetish
of uniform.
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