Loutra: Inaugural Group Show
Loutra opens its inaugural group show. Thirteen artists display their work within a world of crude, deteriorating pixels.
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14 itemsAbout the Game
Loutra is a nonlinear loitering simulator set within a geothermal bathhouse and its surrounding outbuildings, inspired by the municipal baths of Mandraki in Nisyros, Greece.
It is a virtual art space for you to reside in - a small, contemplative world to return to from time to time.
Come back whenever you like.
Features
A unique digital atmosphere with a pixellish, decayed aesthetic
A hand-crafted holiday scattered with quiet details and subtle quirks
Over 20 artworks spanning sculpture, painting, audio, film, installation, and interactive digital media
An exhibition guide listing all contributing artists and their works
Online chatroom
pre-nostalgia for a place you've never visited
Make a coffee, take a bath, sit by the water
"...But it will be wonderfully pleasant to be able to transform at will an empty hour, an interminable evening, an endless Sunday, into an enchantment, an expression of tenderness, a flight of the spirit."
The Conquest of Ubiquity, Paul Valéry (1928)
Loutra is a nostalgic yet bit-rotten cyberspace born from an artist residency in 2019, and it evolved through a series of pre-release exhibitions over five years, where it became a continuous, dreamlike digital space. it sits somewhere between memory and simulation. There is nothing to do- it just asks you to stay.
In the inaugural group show, Loutra accommodates the voices of thirteen artists within a world of crude, deteriorating pixels.
Loutra is self-funded and free-to-play.
Artists
jasper howard @jasperhoward · jacob potterfield @jpotterfield.bsky · joey schutz @joeyschutz.bsky · gurnburial @gurnburial · titolovesyou @titolovesyou · szyst @szyst · bugbuspiano @carriswheel · francesca @_sadhouseplant · charlotte castaing @charlottecstng · natch @natchsoft · alfie sellers @alfiesellers · stanley welch @stanley.welch · wayne @kernelfusion · shanahan sweet @shanahan_sweet
Controls List
WASD - Movement
Mouse - Look
Escape to show menu
E or Click to Press (Interact)
Z to sit down / stand up
T to open online chatroom
