X-in-U
X-in-U examines the dual identities that emerge from digital spaces and the artist’s relationship with reality while living with a chronic illness.
The pillows on the floor invite visitors to lie down. The suspended modules reinforce this horizontal position, being hung so that the patterns are visible from a lying perspective. The emphasis on lying down alludes to fatigue and the need to escape into artificial universes: the digital world, fiction, and dreams. The fictional setting of X-in-U takes place in the Berlin subway, the U-Bahn, which appears in the patterns, with the “U” serving as a reference. The subway, a public space, highlights a world designed for normative bodies, which repeatedly fails the test of inclusivity. The “X” refers to anonymity. The invitation to lie down offers rest, but also evokes the eroticism of the bed as a playground.
In a digital world celebrating hyper-normative, aestheticized bodies, the ill body is disruptive. While global staging promotes the hyperactivity of each individual, lying down becomes a form of resistance. Yet the person living with illness, confined to their bed with narratives disconnected from their reality, witnesses on their screen the emergence of a double with nebulous contours.
X-in-U examines the dual identities that emerge from digital spaces and the artist’s relationship with reality while living with a chronic illness.
The pillows on the floor invite visitors to lie down. The suspended modules reinforce this horizontal position, being hung so that the patterns are visible from a lying perspective. The emphasis on lying down alludes to fatigue and the need to escape into artificial universes: the digital world, fiction, and dreams. The fictional setting of X-in-U takes place in the Berlin subway, the U-Bahn, which appears in the patterns, with the “U” serving as a reference. The subway, a public space, highlights a world designed for normative bodies, which repeatedly fails the test of inclusivity. The “X” refers to anonymity. The invitation to lie down offers rest, but also evokes the eroticism of the bed as a playground.
In a digital world celebrating hyper-normative, aestheticized bodies, the ill body is disruptive. While global staging promotes the hyperactivity of each individual, lying down becomes a form of resistance. Yet the person living with illness, confined to their bed with narratives disconnected from their reality, witnesses on their screen the emergence of a double with nebulous contours.
Dimensions: 140x250cm
Weight: 17kg
Pillows
Printed fabric
Embrodery
X-in-U, 2025, ni larmes, ni pertes, Le Sample, Bagnolet (FR)