Are you Lonesome?, 2007 (detail)

DMX-controlled location; technical equipment; window, gauze, double bed, 2 pillows, plaid, bed linen, 2 bedstands, 2 bedside lamps, sculpture, 2 framed prints, mirror, wallpaper, 2 chairs Tobia & Afra Scarpa, curtains, molton, carpet, ceiling lamp, rosette, cornice, baseboard, hole in wall

The space is inaccessible, but one can peep into a gloomy, dark space, equipped with a heavy wooden bed from the 1930s and two small leather chairs by Tobia and Afra Scarpa. The bed is unmade, the blanket is pushed aside. Everything is brown and black: old-fashioned wallpaper, leather, satin, a dark curtain to the right and a window through which every now and then a bit of light shines through. An oppressive and sombre aura inhabits the space that might be that of a hotel room replete with secrets.

Photo © Carsten Eisfeld