Filmed over four nights in Prague, Czech Republic, with a largely amateur cast, Salt Bath is structured as an experimental teen movie. Its atmosphere draws freely and without hierarchy from both the thriller and horror film genres.

Salt Bath immerses us in the characters’ reflections—both mundane and existential—who serve as their own stand-ins, caught in a non-linear, spiral-shaped narrative. The film’s very title—Salt Bath—suggests a form of cleansing, transition, or a skin-deep purification process that ultimately leads to irritation. These successive metamorphoses extend into the exhibition itself, which becomes, indistinctly, a screening space, a casting room, a teaser, as well as dressing rooms or backstage areas. 

Beyond the screen, individual works by Camille Aleña and K. Desbouis unfold within the space: other videos, in the form of more or less staged encounters, and colourful sculptures resembling abstract soft toys.  The artists’ shared obsessions emerge: fetishism, fanaticism, and the inversion of the traditional “subject–object” relationship, along with a strong fascination for “situations”—whether they be humorous, pathetic, unsettling, perverse, or ambivalent.

Curators: Margaux Bonopera and Cédric Fauq 

The exhibition Double Life is supported by Prohelvetia.