Sleeping Cube
Details
Year: 2017
Medium: Birch Plywood, Soft wood, Metal, Fabric, Toy stuffing
Dimensions: 122cm, 122cm, 132cm
Comment
‘According to Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’ one of the primarily instincts for human beings is a need for a safe shelter, which is best conveyed by metaphors of home as a shell, nest, or a cavernous wardrobe. The memories of a family home gives one a greater sense of security in comparison to the memories of an outside world. I am interested in how we perceive and experience space as an artwork, and I am experimenting with the functionality of sculpture. If I can use design successfully along with an ability to balance it in between disciplines and play with the form and function then my work benefits, because it clearly invites interaction and provides a real experience. The space I create allows the participant to enter comprehensively and become part of the art work.
My aim as a practitioner is to show that art can merge and integrate with human life well, on the grounds that we can learn through experience and to show a path to a personal form of research that may help to find the inner child – subsequently to create a better self. I am doing this by playing around with the memories of childhood and the family home.
In ’24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep’2, Jonathan Crary examines how twenty- first-century capitalism is pushing us to be more and more active and productive in everyday life. Therefore, sleep has become an act of rebellion against western society, or a luxury element of our life we cannot afford to have. That is why I have created a hideaway – placed in a gallery context for the audience to rest or sleep in.’
