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SLEEP

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Tejal’s Performance entitled ‘Sleep’ had her strung out on a hammock outside the window of her first floor studio holding a cord connected to a hammock placed in the middle of the room where the audience was expected to lie down one at a time. Right above the interior hammock was a projection bounced off from a 45-degree mirror with the projector on the floor. The footage was beamed directly, constructing associations with multiple female identities within the context of a common task as it had shot footage of women sleeping, mumbling, and singing with their head on the pillow. This footage was edited into a loop and projected on Tejal’s body and the entire procedure was then shot from a stationary camera on a tripod. Beautifully constructed and composed in the unlit studio space the only light was ambient, filtering in off the street casting a larger than life shadow of Tejal across the projection.



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