The Vagina Tunnel became a global talking point after being featured in Architectural Digest, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert  an editorial in The Guardian. Conceived as an immersive full-body experience, the work reframes anatomy as threshold: a symbolic portal concerned less with shock than with transition. By translating an intimate bodily form into inhabitable space, Reynolds engages themes of vulnerability, birth, and creative origin—inviting viewers to confront discomfort while also reclaiming softness and interiority as sources of power.

The piece encourages slow movement, mirroring the tempo of emergence or rebirth. The journey culminates in an unexpected industrial dryer exit, a deliberate nod to earlier works from x+rey such as Bike Dryers, where utility, absurdity, and ritual cleansing converge. In total, the installation balances intimacy with theatricality—an engineered rite of passage disguised as architecture.

Constructed with tactile materials and intentionally evocative form, The Vagina Tunnel reframes an architectural element as an embodied metaphor for transformation and rebirth — you enter through a gateway suggestive of a birth canal and emerge “rebirthed” into another space. In doing so, the installation engages long-standing art historical debates around the representation of the female body, confronting taboos about female anatomy while reclaiming familiar symbols of vulnerability as portals to creative thought and introspection.