Roger Grasas
HOTEL SWEET HOTEL
[1998-2020]

Hotel, Sweet Hotel is an extensive taxonomic collection of hotel room interiors and facilities, created over more than two decades in a hundred countries across five continents. Conceived as a trip around the world through the traveler’s stays—a kind of “blind spot” of the photographer—this photobook explores disciplines as diverse as sociology, geography, architecture, and psychology.

Hotel, Sweet Hotel is thus presented as a tribute to travel and the human virtue of hospitality, and addresses concepts such as difference, globalization, solitude, or the traveler’s complicity with a space that, for a brief period, becomes their home. Oscillating between the poles of the interior and the exterior—whether through the physical frame of a window or through the ubiquitous screens of the television, computer, or smartphone—, Hotel, Sweet Hotel unfolds with subtle irony a vast variety of interiors that point towards a possible anthropology of travel.