No sleeper seats, that's a mattress

Pierre Allain, Mariia Andreeva, Stefano Faoro, Kazuki Matsushita, Batsheva Ross, Yuu Takamizawa, Rhianna Turnbull, Michael Van den Abeele

Opening Saturday, 11 May, 6 pm
12 May – 15 June 2024
Extended until 22 June

A bedroom is a room in which there is a bed; a dining-room is a room in which there are a table and chairs, and often a sideboard; a sitting-room is a room in which there are armchairs and a couch; a kitchen is a room in which there is a cooker and a water inlet; a bathroom is a room in which there is a water inlet above a bathtub; when there is only a shower, it is known as a shower-room; when there is only a wash-basin it is known as a cloakroom; an entrance-hall is a room in which at least one of the doors leads outside the apartment; in addition, you may find a coat-rack in there; a child's bedroom is a room into which you put a child; a broom closet is a room into which you put brooms and the vacuum cleaner; a maid's bedroom is a room that you let to a student.

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I have several times tried to think of an apartment in which there would be a useless room, absolutely and intentionally useless. It wouldn't be a junk room. It wouldn't be an extra bedroom, or a corridor, or a cubby-hole, or a corner. It would be a functionless space. It would serve for nothing, relate to nothing. For all my efforts, I found it impossible to follow this idea through to the end. Language itself seemingly proved unsuited to describing this nothing, this void, as if we could only speak of what is full, useful, and functional. A space without function. Not 'without any precise function' but precisely without any function; not pluri-functional (everyone knows how to do that), but a-functional. It would obviously be a space not intended solely to 'release' the others (lumber room, cupboard, hanging space, storage space, etc.) but a space, I repeat, that would serve no purpose at all.

Species of Space by Georges Perec

https://hill-cherry.com/no-sleeper-seats-thats-a-mattress/

Pierre Allain

Rhianna Turnbull

Rhianna Turnbull
Untitled
2022
Oil on paper
75 x 55 cm