13/02/2026
Mystery of the Bed
The mattress features a cut-out section revealing the internal arrangement of its individual layers — a visual model borrowed from the commercial presentation of product quality.
The artist transfers this intimate interior space of sleep and home into the position of a vault for various objects of “survival” — weapons and preserved food. Constructed from durable yet uncomfortable materials, more commonly associated with military construction or civil defense, the work transforms a site of rest into a structure of preparedness, anxiety, and latent defense.
Mystery of the Bed, 2025
Mattress, metal, concrete, canned food, parts of military ammunition
200 × 90 × 38 cm
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Act No. I
The artist reverses the lens of cultural anthropology, presenting objects such as devices for bodily stimulation and fat burning as parasites coexisting on the remnants of organic elements. In this configuration, the living and the human recede into the background, yielding to the demands of products.
These objects are emancipated as the primary entities of the narrative, within which new ethnographic systems and relationships are formed.
Act No. I, 2023
Metal, ceramic, electric muscle stimulator, etc.
100 × 70 × 60 cm
Radovan Čerevka