DEEP END (2005)
Marshall Street Baths Soho
Deep End was a site-specific performance journey created for the disused Marshall Street Baths Soho. Juxtaposing images of the past present and imagined future of the building and Soho, Deep End acknowledged the buildings importance to the local Soho Community as it had been not only a public swimming pool but also had contained a Mother and Baby Clinic and Slipper Baths for those households that had no hot water or bathrooms.
“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
Deep End was a site-specific performance journey created for the disused Marshall Street Baths Soho. Juxtaposing images of the past present and imagined future of the building and Soho, Deep End acknowledged the buildings importance to the local Soho Community as it had been not only a public swimming pool but also had contained a Mother and Baby Clinic and Slipper Baths for those households that had no hot water or bathrooms.
“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
