I Make My Bed by Pip Dryden at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

Now on view in the Project Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is ‘I Make My Bed’, a new installation by Pip Dryden. We spend about a third of our lives asleep. Through the use of materials from the body, ‘I Make My Bed’ illustrates the way we are physically connected to our beds. The bed itself accumulates evidence of the life that it’s part of. While we sleep, our bodies are left vulnerable, completely surrendered to our beds. The pillow cradles our heads as we sleep, creating a relationship between our dreaming selves and our pillows. The pillows in ‘I Make My Bed’ are embellished with residue of the body, reminding the viewer of the materiality and vulnerability of their own bodies. The presentation of bodily objects separated from the body itself illustrates the intimate physical connection between our bodies and our beds. ‘I Make My Bed’ presents the discomfort of being faced with that which reminds us of our own mortality, physicality, and materiality in the place that we surrender ourselves. ‘I Make My Bed’ will be on view in the Project Gallery of the Alternator until June 25, 2022. The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is open Tuesday to Friday, 11am – 6pm, and Saturday 11am – 4pm. To learn more about this exhibition visit http://www.alternatorcentre.com.