Tag: bed

Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010)

Precious Liquids

1992

Cedar wood, metal, glass, rubber, fabric, embroidery, water, alabaster, electricity

427 cm Diameter: 442 cm

New York building water tank with 2 doors, circled with a metal band bearing an inscription “Art is a guaranty of sanity”. Inside: a bed, glass containers, metal poles, an embroidered girl’s garment and cushion covered with a man’s overcoat, wooden and rubber spheres, a luminous alabaster lamp

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Sleeping is like death – Chiharu Shiota

“Beds are the places where almost everyone is born and dies,” the artist explains. “That’s why they are such enthralling objects. I always use objects that have already been used, as they are full of history. What’s more, every person who gets up leaves a different body print on the bed. It’s fascinating.”

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“Sleep is a bit like death,” the artist continues. “You never know if you are going to wake up. When you’re lying in bed at night and the lights are off, in your mind you go over what you did during the day; you slowly slip into your dreams, and you are caught in a web of thoughts, which I represent by all these threads; we get close to our subconscious, maybe like we would when death is near.”

Source: mu-inthecity.com

Jana Sterbak, Bread Bed, exposition “La Disparition des lucioles”, prison Sainte-Anne en Avignon, août 2014

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Steve McQueen, The Weight, 2016. Gold-plated mosquito net draped over a prison-issue bunkbed. Photograph: © Marcus J. Leith. Courtesy of Artangel.