By Dorotea Petrucci

When visiting the Giardini della Biennale, it would be almost impossible for you to miss The Restroom Pavilion – all you need is an urgent feeling of releasing yourself. Once there, the curators expect you to follow your instinct and not listen to anyone – enter whichever door you want. Inside, make yourself at home and interact with this newly visible, typically underground world of water pipes and sewage lines. Also, do not ignore the informative captions presented on the walls if you want to know what the silver and yellow flags stand for. There is probably nothing that connects us all, no matter who and where we are, more than a hidden network of infrastructures designed for our universal desire of expelling body waste. What is next for this public intervention? Perhaps a coffee table, a few chairs – a few drinks too – and some honest conversations about how we can better live together inside and outside of the toilet. Anyone is welcome. After all, as the curators tell SC, “The bathroom is where the real party is.”