The gents' toilet, a forbidden place for women, is the new space for body caring. The discriminatory pressure that society exerts upon the appearance of women is applied inside a particular space for males. Body care is taken to the extreme, it is not just a parlour for pampering the body but it is also a space for medical treatment and surgery, an operation toilet.
The current need for body care is abstracted into the desire for transforming the body, this goes to the extreme of surgery, affecting many more women than men. This fact is used as an opportunity to transform the invisible woman's body as a part of the new identity of Nora as a female employee.
The invisible woman recreates a body-care-transforming multifunctional space that gathers any self-deliberated body change inside the gents' toilet. The office chair and the toilet seat are assembled to provide a couch that is surrounded by a health monitoring system and an auxiliary tool table where the “real” toilet is located. This central set is surrounded by the plastic-bag curtains that enclose the shower along with the toilet-roll corner where the invisible woman can perform less risky activities such as: cutting her nails, combing her hair, hair removal and tinting, claiming that these activities are not necessarily related just to women as they are conventionally stereotyped.
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