Mixed media installation
Created in collaboration with Sanjushrree Subash, Comissioned by Art Jameel
When does rest become resistance?
This series of instructional artworks interrogates the contemporary politics of rest through the lens of feminine labour and fatigue. By assuming an intentionally instructional tone borrowed from user manuals and product catalogues, the collection of chairs in a showroom-like setting toys with ideas of agency and provokes the viewer to question the rampant commodification of rest. The site-specific nature of the work, situated in alternately public and private spaces, further centres the body and invites the viewer to consider the spatial and gendered experience of rest-challenging not only who is entitled to rest but where and under what conditions.