Bedtime Story 2011
HD video, sound 05:06Caracas, VenezuelaBedtime Story 2014
Muséo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela.Immersive installation with fabric-room sculpture and single-channel video and sound. Dimensions variable.Photos: Livia Daza-ParisBedtime Story
I asked my mother,
'When is my dad coming back?' She began to tell me about the conflict in some imagined land between good and evil and that my father was part of that struggle for justice, a good struggle. For a moment, she paused, and then quieter, hesitantly, she told me, 'Up in the mountains, by the woods, there was an ambush, and someone said that your father was killed… his body was left far from here, somewhere'. I wondered, 'Is his body as far as the far end of the world?
It was already dark when she told me this story, and the lights were off. I could not see her face or her eyes. Only the street lights shimmer through my bedroom's window. Did I hear her cry? 'Time to sleep now', mother said.
And so, I found myself drifting into the night towards the place I imagined being at the world's far end.