It’s a wintery Saturday morning in Melbourne and it’s raining. Nothing too unusual about that, I hear you cry. Except that the downpour is indoors, while wispy cirrus clouds whip across a crisp blue St Kilda sky outside. No prizes for guessing I’m in the Rain Room, the much-discussed installation that opened in a purpose-built pavilion above a concrete carpark two weeks ago.

The surprise is that I’m showering with hotelier and entrepreneur Louis Li, the man behind the multi-award-winning Jackalope hotel on the Mornington Peninsula. He also founded the Jackalope Art Collection, for which he recently acquired the Rain Room. The installation will be a feature in his next hotel, scheduled to open in Flinders Lane, Melbourne in 2022.