For those of you who don't know, the basic materials of serialbathroomdummyrun are the photographs that Blixa Bargeld has taken of every hotelbathroom he has used since 1990. As by his own reckoning he stays in around 200 hotel rooms every year, he's not short of raw materials. But now that I've had the chance to really consider the matter, I think I was wrong. Kilroy Was Here. I can answer a receptionist's question before she even asks.
Hotels are similar, especially the hotels of a chain, and most hotels belong to a chain.
Every hotel tries to be, and advertises itself as comfortable, pleasant, to make the guest feel at home. A hotel room is impersonal, has to be impersonal, that makes it good. I am the soilure that penetrates this room, a room that doesn't need my presence. In this ever-evolving game of photography, Bargeld found himself taking photographs of hotel bathrooms. He says he took the first photographs in a Ramada hotel in Zuerich, not because the bathroom was special or different in any way, but rather because it was just like all the others.