Sleep Tight (2015)
(performance / installation)
(performance / installation)
Photos by Jade Wulfraat
Location: Galerie C.O.A. Montreal, in collaboration with Studio Beluga and Faux Cadres Canal.
Duration: 1 week (gallery opening hours); 45 hours elapsed
This piece consists of an eight foot tall elevated structure resembling a bed frame, across which several layers of clear cellophane are stretched. For a week, the artist sleeps in the gallery space from opening until closing. Visitors are be able to walk in and see the artist from below, blindfolded, deafened by earphones, semi-nude and asleep.
The intention of the piece is to raise questions on privacy and intimacy; in allowing the public to witness the artist in a state of total sensory deprivation and undress, they completely relinquishes power to the audience. The boundaries of what can/should be seen are rendered ambiguous. The gallery format facilitates a very particular social context in which the public is invited to stare. The subject of their scrutiny is vulnerable, yet unaware of their critics. The installation creates for a one-way mirror effect in which the public is invited to exercise their own innate voyeuristic tendencies at the voluntary expense of the artist.
This piece was paired with a series of sculptures called Seven, a series of plaster bandage casts made on the artist with no release agent. They then cut each piece off on their own. Each piece represents one of the seven deadly sins.
Duration: 1 week (gallery opening hours); 45 hours elapsed
This piece consists of an eight foot tall elevated structure resembling a bed frame, across which several layers of clear cellophane are stretched. For a week, the artist sleeps in the gallery space from opening until closing. Visitors are be able to walk in and see the artist from below, blindfolded, deafened by earphones, semi-nude and asleep.
The intention of the piece is to raise questions on privacy and intimacy; in allowing the public to witness the artist in a state of total sensory deprivation and undress, they completely relinquishes power to the audience. The boundaries of what can/should be seen are rendered ambiguous. The gallery format facilitates a very particular social context in which the public is invited to stare. The subject of their scrutiny is vulnerable, yet unaware of their critics. The installation creates for a one-way mirror effect in which the public is invited to exercise their own innate voyeuristic tendencies at the voluntary expense of the artist.
This piece was paired with a series of sculptures called Seven, a series of plaster bandage casts made on the artist with no release agent. They then cut each piece off on their own. Each piece represents one of the seven deadly sins.