vroomheid:
Rosemarie Trockel, 1999
Sleeping pill
Her installation Sleeping Pill (1999) for the German pavilion in Venice is so fundamentally unlike the wool pictures that it might just as well be by a different artist. Having been confronted in the entrance area with a video of an eye looking down on them, visitors could lie down in a kind of ethereal blue lit sleep laboratory to find peace within the hustle and bustle of the biennial. In the life-size video projection in the adjacent room, one could observe people using the space, including the plastic transparent cocoons hung against the walls. This sci-fi setting created a meditative atmosphere in which one could lose oneself like a sleep-walker.
