EXHIBITION OPENS AT TOWN HALL
A new and unusual exhibition opened last Friday in the Reginald Perrin Room at Froghill Town Hall. Entitled ‘Squatter's Rights: Wiping Away Cultural Barriers’, it features over 1,000 daubings with a difference. For every single exhibit is a used sheet of toilet paper.
The exhibition is the brainchild of Japanese globetrotter Mayuko Hishida, who collected, and then kept, a piece of toilet paper from every hotel she has stayed in over the past two decades.
Said Ms Hishida:
“No matter who you are, what language you speak, where you live or what you do, you have to use the toilet. It is one of the few activities which unite us as humans. So, about 20 years ago, I began collecting examples of this great leveller. I hope that by displaying my exhibits all together, side by side, we can break down the barriers between cultures and appreciate our common humanity.”
Among Ms Hishida’s more unusual exhibits are a 2-ply monogrammed sheet of gold leaf from the Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, and a thin sheet of ice from the Ice Hotel in Kiruna, Sweden, which has to be kept in its own glass-fronted mini-freezer.
The exhibition runs until the 28th of February. Entrance is £2.50, (children £1), free to the unemployed and incontinent.
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