A Memory Foam
Tamar Chabashvili
mattress, print on fabric
2018
The starting point of this work is an image of a building in front of my house in Tbilisi. I discovered this building in 2005, when my family settled in a studio apartment that was illegally constructed on the rooftop of a 16-story apartment building.
The facade of this partially inhabited and unfinished building was intruding into my daily reality and simultaneously, it mirrored my personal state at that time. Completely ignoring construction, urban, and public law, each inhabitant shaped the facade of the building according to their individual needs. The endless transformation process (of extending, reconstructing, and adding) kept the plurality of approaches and altogether offered a particular aesthetic.
In order to retrace that overwhelming experience of temporality, that clearly influenced my own perception of home as an endless process, I decided to print the image of that building on a mattress - the most intimate companion of our body, which often holds our imprints as stains and as time passes, it slowly adapts to the shape of our body.