THEBATHROOMSHOW
American Fabric Arts Building, Bridgeport, CT
THEBATHROOMSHOW is a site-specific exhibition in the AMFAB Arts "Ladies-Women's" room featuring AMFAB bathroom-related digital photographs and sculpture.
A century before the building was designated for art studios, the American Fabric Arts Building (c.1907) was a lace manufacturing building. The second floor was designated executive offices with "executive bathrooms." When Roxy moved into her studio space #201 at AMFAB Arts, she admired the second-floor bathroom and described it as too wonderful to ignore.
Roxy’s fascination with the space was layered; at first glance it was the fancy mosaic tiled floor paired with distorted plastic fun house mirrors. The gem in the space was the defunct 60’s era metal rusting feminine napkin box bolted to the marble wall with a label that read: “DO NOT FORCE KNOB TO TURNCALL MATRON OR CUSTODIAN. The text label and the feminine napkin box represent a unique part of Women's History: feminine hygiene in public spaces.
Over time, Roxy began photographing various aspects of the bathroom, ultimately using the space as a site-specific installation; her first act was filling the feminine napkin box with plaster-molded objects referencing female breasts and rounded forms.
The site-specific THEBATHROOMSHOW features a series of photographs based on the bathroom itself: the bathroom is a meme of itself; the feminine napkin box with molds, an interactive toilet paper sculpture, and a question box that invites visitors to “Dump your emotions here.” The public exhibition is ongoing since Fall 2025. Roxy Savage (studio 201) welcomes all genders to experience THEBATHROOMSHOW.