Bedrotting (2025)

Mattress, pillows, bed frame, digital print on cotton

This installation invites visitors to engage in bed rotting—a collective exploration of dissociation and escapism, often reframed as acts of self-care. The artwork transforms this gesture into a site of both vulnerability and critique, where intimate digital traces are entangled with planetary collapse.

The bed linen was created through a digital collage processes that bring together sexts exchanged with past lovers, nude selfies, heart iconographies, and headlines reporting on environmental disasters—including those affecting Shahat, the site of ancient Cyrene. These elements are digitally warped and overlaid, forming a swirling topography of desire, grief, and memory. The work narrates the story of silphium—an extinct plant linked to love, lust, and reproductive agency—while tracing its entanglement with colonial conquest, territorial occupation, and the patriarchal control of bodies.

In this intimate and immersive setting, Bed Rotting becomes a space to rest and to reckon: to lie down inside the affective wreckage of a collapsing world, and to reflect on how digital infrastructures capture, sell, and algorithmically shape our longings.