Emilie Evans

SENSORIUM EMPORIUM : interstices of intimacy

Sensorium Emporium invites romantics and love-seekers to engage in a journey of slow, intimate love. The project particularly invites same-sex female love-seekers for whom this safe space of free love is designed. In today’s love scene, dating apps provide quick, easy matches – capitalising on love with in-app purchases and promoting the commodification of ‘person’ through a convenient ’swipe’ function – but at the cost of finding deeper, more meaningful relationships. To diverge from this hurried rhythm of match-making, Sensorium Emporium urges participants to slow down, through interstices and apertures that privilege various sensorial qualities. Sensorium Emporium, combines elements of retail typologies with acts of love, through courtyard, arcade and register spaces. Sensorium Emporium acknowledges the shopping arcade as a ‘temple of commodity capital’ and a place for consumption and human desires; it is itself an act of consumption, where boundary between object and subject is blurred. Most importantly, it is a place for love.