DEEP END (2005)
A site-specific, promenade performance made for the disused Marshall Street Baths, Soho. A glorious former swimming pool dating from 1850 is brought magically back to life as its past glories haunt the present in a series of breathtaking and ghostly installations.
“There is an eloquence that emanates from these abandoned spaces, and Pilgrim cleverly allows them to speak for themselves, to reveal more than she imposes. So although the vast Sicilian marble swimming pool is empty, it brims over with memories. Move along into “the second-class bath” and it is as if the whole building is crying out to protect its faded haughty grandeur, as nature invades and branches of trees insinuate themselves through walls. In half an hour it is all over, and as you are sent out again into the bustle of Soho’s streets, you wonder if you imagined it.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“There is an eloquence that emanates from these abandoned spaces, and Pilgrim cleverly allows them to speak for themselves, to reveal more than she imposes. So although the vast Sicilian marble swimming pool is empty, it brims over with memories. Move along into “the second-class bath” and it is as if the whole building is crying out to protect its faded haughty grandeur, as nature invades and branches of trees insinuate themselves through walls. In half an hour it is all over, and as you are sent out again into the bustle of Soho’s streets, you wonder if you imagined it.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian