Catya Plate

BS06-closed

Bedtime Stories VI

The Bedtime Stories are an ongoing series of three-dimensional diptychs that investigate our sexual behavior and courtship, by focusing on specific senses. Each pair, depicting some parts of the human body in an erogenous context, is sewn onto stretched canvas with latex rubber, bandanas, fabric and embroidery floss.

BS08-closed

Bedtime Stories VIII

Bedtime Stories V-XI focus on the sense of touch by incroporating touchable materials like artificial grass, velvet, fake fur, lace, synthetic hair and sandpaper that envelope the diptychs completely. Each object closes with a brass catch in the front which the viewer opens as if it were a private diary, thus demonstrating how

BS10-closed

Bedtime Stories X

blurred the line is between the private and the public. The different colored bandanas refer loosely to the handkerchief codes that are used by some S/M and gay groups to tell the potential partner a preference for a specific sexual activity. The actual hairpins in some of the pieces suggest a test that one can perform on oneself to determine erogenous zones.

BS11-closed

Bedtime Stories XI