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Kendine Ait Bir Yatak

Eda Çekil

Exhibition

2025

Turkey

A bed is not merely a place for sleep. It is a stage for rest, love, illness, healing, even stillness, and idleness. While the waking hours spent in bed are often labeled as unproductive or wasted time, in her series "Kendine Ait Bir Yatak" ("A Bed of One’s Own"), Eda Çekil questions whether staying in bed can be a form of resistance. She defends the freedom of sprawling out and doing nothing, challenging the relentless pressure of productivity and wondering whether abandoning to-do lists could be a silent yet powerful act of defiance. The artist redefines the bed as “a place where we resist the pressure to be neat and obedient by simply lying down with our messy hair, doing absolutely nothing.” This redefinition gives the work its name, "A Bed of One’s Own." While the women lying side by side in the photographs may suggest a shared fate, each bed, united in struggle, tells a unique and singular story. The work transforms Woolf's idea of women's need for a room of one's own into a need for a bed of one's own, positioning the bed as one of the conditions that make creation, production, rest and sometimes doing nothing possible.

Snail, WAA
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