In the middle of a picturesque field in Belgium, there lies a giant anus with loads of people entering it every year.
The CasAnus is a one-room hotel created by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout. Red and pulsing on the outside, complete with a bunghole, the hotel is anatomically correct (apart from its size of course).
Inside the anus is a double bed, shower, bathroom, and dining area. Central heating keeps the anus’ clean, white interior nice and warm.
If for some reason you want to leave the CasAnus, the local drinking hole, the BarRectum (shaped like an intestine), is just a stone’s throw away.
Van Lieshout said he birthed the stay-in-arsehole as a way to celebrate nature’s flawless creation, the human body.
“One of the recurring themes in my work is a strong interest in systems—economical systems and political systems, but also the human body, which I believe is a perfect system,” he told Vice in 2014.
“From 2005 to 2008, I made a series of works which represented the human body, but also a complete series of human internal organs, ranging from heart and brain to liver, rectum, and male and female sex organs.”
“The CasAnus is part of that series and takes its shape from the human digestive system. Starting with the tongue, continuing to the stomach, moving through the small and the large intestine, and exiting through the anus.”
He said people can’t get enough of the inhabitable butthole, with “anywhere between 200 and 250 people” getting inside it annually.
“The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Guests love to stay inside a piece of art, especially one in such an isolated, quiet location,” he shared. “It’s still a darling of the press even eight years after the project was completed.”
If anywhere asks where I am next vacation, let ‘em know I’m parked up inside a luxurious, Belgian anus.
