V SPOT sex toy shop space was born in end of 2017 in Shanghai ChangLe Road. It combines the red wine bar, female body sculpt workshop space, and the function of a comprehensive boutique space to display and selling adult sex goods. Its birth to sort of opens up the shyness that Chinese women have traditionally avoided sex topic. In an open manner, it conveys information and communication about sex, sex product and sexual cognition to Shanghai women.
The owner Ying Wong invited founders of the Greater Dog Spatial Research Lab - Red Hu and Jin Xin as the space designer work into a vanguard space practice at this time.
V SPOT sex toy shop space design thinking is based on the " No Boundary " discussion to explore design possibilities. Before proceeding with the design , we did a research of " sex " . A very interesting point of view was found from the 《Histoire de la sexualité》 : In the 《Histoire de la sexualité》, Michel Foucault mentioned that sexuality wasn't a inhibited topic as well as boudoir secret until the Victorian era.
However，sexuality suddenly became a taboo subject in Victorian times. Traditional gender studies believe that this is a kind of repression of sex, which can only sexual liberation be achieved by breaking this repression. Not so, says Michel Foucault. Although sexuality has become a taboo topic, we are actually talking more and more about it. We disciplined it and regarded it as a secret, but its existence was strengthened in this way .
The appearance of the inherent image of sexuality makes people draw a clear line of "sex", and therefore people can not cross it easily. However, the great Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, who has been in the midst of love, marriage, lovers, and the creation of nude paintings, once said, “Sex and Art are the same thing” - Pablo Picasso
Therefore, we try to dispel the embarrassment sexuality topic by artistic space language, and bring it into a part of daily life.
In the case of this design work, we cast the words of Pablo Picasso to the shadow of body who passing by; Peel the Andy Warhol's pop banana into a “manifesto sculpture ”; Let the O 'keeffe's painting stand in the red corridor quietly. And Imagine that V Spot is like the gallery space with different art pieces. It is a place where people touched and delight, as well as a place where all true feelings are contained.
Perhaps at a time when we enter V SPOT, people will no longer be shy about talking about sex here, but as naturally as we see the naked art piece work and know the information relatively in the art gallery.
