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The word penetralia typically refers to the most private and embedded architecture of a building or temple. Beyond an initial, immediate association with sex, it is the noun neutral of the Latin adjective penetralis, 鈥渋nterior鈥�. This word reveals an unexpected reality about the verb penetrate and offers us a way to signify the dimension of the intimate, the recondite, and the inaccessible. Without the pretensions of the impenetrable, it spatially traces the mystery of the inside.

Ellie Rae Hunter and Anni Puolakka's dialogic show builds upon the namesake 2018 film, which tells the story of a person whose memory of an early sexual encounter with the bubbling waters of a jacuzzi is triggered when she moves into an apartment above an all-male sauna. Heat, sounds, and condensation from the sauna seep into the flat and the protagonist finds herself impregnated with a swarm of fishing lures. The collaborative project explored entanglements, boundaries, and transformative relations between beings and materials. Five years later, Penetralia II further develops the artists' research into the porosity of architectures and bodies through a series of individual works and a spatial intervention.