My project, titled “Passage”, can be found on the first floor of the building, inside an abandoned room with weathered walls and a timeworn floor. There I have placed a series of 80 bed mattresses, single and double, white, colourful with various patterns, gathered so that they form a wall which divides the room in two parts; front and back.

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The front part is where the entrance is and the viewers can see the mattress wall as soon as they enter. Behind the wall, where the viewers have no access, I have set up spotlights of a particular cold and intense light. The front room, where the viewer is, and the back room, where the light is, are connected through a passage, a doorway I have created by cutting away parts of the mattress wall, sized precisely so that its analogies are slightly smaller than those of the average human, thus the viewer will find it challenging to cross this passage.

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Generally in my work, what interests me the most is collecting objects for the creation of my various projects, objects that escape their use, aborting their functionality and passivity, as I set them to interact with one another, to be matched and given a new purpose. Every object, according to Jean Baudrillard, is inherently filled with passion, so that it could almost have a life of its own, and is capable of surpassing the boundaries of its passive use to achieve something like an autonomy. In this project my major objects are the mattresses. I gathered them from friends, family, mattresses that were old and worn from the road, as well as here in this hospital.