Lea-Maraike Sambale


would you rest here 2

Screenprint on Chiffon
500 X 90 cm
2023


Installation



"My body, trying to lean, is uncomfortable and doesn’t really want to remain in any one position."

The installation would you rest here 2 presents six halftone images screen-printed onto translucent chiffon fabric. Each print depicts a figure in a specific bodily posture. Through their transparency, the floor-length hanging textiles collage the figures into the space, as if they were leaning, bracing themselves, or sitting.

Based on a multi-day research phase by the artist in the empty exhibition space, the work raises questions about dis_comfort and the need for places of rest within exhibition contexts.



would you rest here 2, Kassel, 2023
would you rest here 2, Kassel, 2023
would you rest here 2, Kassel, 2023
would you rest here 2, Kassel, 2023
would you rest here 2, Kassel, 2023