08 Feb Sleeping Souls

It’s an attempt to imagine the existing furniture with the members of that house, how they would sit on a chair if they were present or how one would lie on a bed. Here the artists have found one distinct bed with significant patterns that they used as an object of an performative photographic work to represent an imaginary member of that house lying in different postures. When an outsider enters the house, she/he just sees the leftover furniture which is not just an ordinary existence because that carries the memories and touches of the persons lived there, used them.

Artists and photographer collaborated where one artist performed as the presence of the members and photographer captured the moment and then again they place cut outs of those positions on the beds just to help the audience visualize the fact that there lived people once whose touches and warmth are there on the furniture, even after they’re gone. 

Title: Sleeping Souls
Artist: URONTO Collectives
Time and place: First Episode of UORNTO Residential Art Exchange Program at Kushtia,BD. 2013
Content developed by Towhid Islam Khan 
(URONTO artist Community)