The walls feel thin when half asleep
Video and sound installation on textile (2025)
The boundaries between waking and sleeping are fluid. The fleeting transition on the threshold between wakefulness and sleep is referred to as hypnagogia in sleep medicine. In this state of limbo, external perception and internal, fragmented phenomena of consciousness overlap.
This work is a multi-sensory approach to the phenomenon and combines video, textiles and sound in one installation. Patchwork curtains, sewn from opaque bed linen and transparent curtain fabrics, refer to the intimacy of sleep and the temporary permeability of the hypnagogic state. The permeability creates an intermediate space which, together with the curtains, serves as a projection surface for the video image.
The basis for the video is a questionnaire in which 54 participants were asked to describe their personal experiences and individual perceptions of hypnagogia. These subjective reports became a visual translation that is not narrative, linear or complete ~ like the state itself.
Exhibition view: Group exhibition "Insomnale" at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute, Greifswald
