Caught Prey in the Conjugal Bed
Davorka Tumpić, a student at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, highly intrigued us with her project “Uhvaćeni plijen/Caught Prey”, a concept for designing bed linen. Namely, this project of hers was highly successful at the IF Concept Award 2011 competition, where it short-listed as one of 300 best works amongst 8 thousand submitted works. ‘Caught Prey’ is a prototype for designing bed linen stemming from Davorka’s last project, an art installation entitled “Nesanica/Insomnia.” At the fourth international competition Premio Arte Laguna in Venice, this installation was singled out as one of the 180 finalists amongst more than 5 thousand submitted works and presented at the exhibition on the Venetian Arsenals.
The spatial installation “Uhvaćeni plijen/Caught prey” is a conjugal bed with pillows and bed linen. The fabric is filled up with typographically shaped illustrations, where the author shapes silhouettes of male and female bodies intertwining them with multiplying verses from love poems. A simple decoration of a completely ordinary everyday object such as bed linen, lined with simple black handwriting, induces completely different connotations, a symbolic and at the same time intimate dedication to scenarios that could happen between sheets. The concept is inspired by a love story that remains imprinted as a repeated trace within the “to have and to hold” nest. Infinitely repeated verses imprinted through shapes of a couple’s bustling poses.
Click here for more on the IF Concept Award project, and here for a look at all the 300 short-listed projects.
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