SELF

Wash the pain away.

SELF – Human Soap is made from people for people: human fat is collected from cosmetic surgery and processed into soap. Through a process of upcycling waste materiál (human fat), new value is created and a sustainable product is brought into life.

The profit from selling the soap directly contributes to financing a drinking-water project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Human fat saves lives. Pure water – pure transformation.

SELF is a performance-installation in the form of a contemporary concept-store. The shop is located in Prague 7 where visitors can experience a free cleansing treatment. Artist Julian Hetzel proposes “guilt” as an untapped resource and introduces a visionary system of value creation through transformation.

By selecting SELF, curator Platform-Scenography demonstrates how scenography, design, visual arts and performance are often seamlessly blended in contemporary art practices in the Netherlands. It shines light on a form of scenography that appropriates forms of existing structures outside of the theatre, in order to question these critically.

SELF is a layered experience that provokes strong reactions. The scenography of SELF challenges the viewer to position themselves in relation to the questions that this space, a soap concept-store, seems to pose. The premise that guilt can be converted into capital, is as convincing as it is disrupting.

Website:
humansoap.com

Country/Region The Netherlands

Curator Platform-Scenography

Artists Julian Hetzel

Partners SOAP Maastricht, Platform-Scenography, Stimuleringsfonds, Dutch Performing Arts