Sleeping in the Order of the Slowing of Time

Sleeping in the Order of the Slowing of Time

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Museum:The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Item Type:Installation
Artist / Creator:
  • Dodge, Jason, born USA 1969, active Germany
Date:2011
Domain:Art
Classification:Visual Art
Technique: Three blue pillows
Item Code:ICMS_IMJ_550774
Photographers:Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Copyright:© The artist
Credit:Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
Ownership: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Registration No.: B14.0639
Description
Jason Dodge creates sculptures that challenge the viewer’s imagination, expanding the frame of the here and now. The three blue pillows on the floor represent three sleeping scientists. “Sleeping in the order of the slowing of time. A pillow that has only been slept on by the botanist Dr. Doris Väth, a pillow that only the archaeologist Dr. Britta Rabe has slept on, and a pillow that has only been slept on by Dr. Gretta Alteby, a tectonic geophysicist.” Dodge’s title suggests a possible story, a dream, a vehicle to different layers of earth and time, if we imagine the women who slept on these pillows. One of them, the geophysicist, digs deepest into the earth, studying its development over millions of years. The archaeologist excavates past civilizations, uncovering artifacts of human belief and behavior. Working near the earth’s surface, the botanist focuses on the present time, on plants that start out in the ground and will grow in the future. Dodge’s soft pillows transport us to different points in time and on the earth, into the blue of the sky and the dark of the night.