Sleeping between the Sky and the Earth

Sleeping between the Sky and the Earth is a performative intervention on Shape of the Space XIII, a  sculpture by the renowned Croatian artist Ivan Kožarić. Artist slept inside the sculpture from midnight of the August 20 until the next morning.

The work is inspired by Kožarić’s statement, according which the sculpture represents the relationship between the sky and the earth, starting from this interpretation and the claim that our existence takes place between these two basic physical and metaphysical elements – sleeping in Kožarić’s sculpture exceeds the physical dimension of the performance and makes the privileged stay in immaterial, universal space of his art. The choice of sleeping as a form of staying in The Shape of the Space was ‘destined’ by my works with dreams in which, to put it simply, the life functions like a dream between the sky and the earth, while the sleeping within this context represents the ‘shape’ of our stay on earth.