Histoire de chambres

Description

Many paths lead to the bedroom: sleep, love, meditation, God, sex, reading, reclusion - wanted or suffered. From childbirth to agony, the bedroom is the theatre of existence, the place where the body, undressed, naked, weary, desiring, abandons itself. The bedroom is a box, both real and imaginary. Four walls, ceiling, floor, door and window structure its materiality. From Antiquity to the present day, Michelle Perrot sketches a genealogy of the bedroom, the crucible of Western culture, and explores some of its forms: the bedroom of Louis XIV, the hotel room, the marital room, the room of the young girl, the sick or dying person, the writer's room, the religious cell or the prison cell.