Dorothy Sing Zhang photographs those asleep in bed for her debut book, ‘Like Someone Alive’
, published with Art Paper Editions, Dorothy Sing Zhang explains her unusual process: ‘I set the scene in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure.’ The results are somewhere between haunting and peaceful, as unconscious figures are illuminated in various states of cocooning, or limbs sprawling.
‘About five years ago I was trying to realise a way where the approach towards the trigger would somehow be directly reflected in the image. How can the pressure craft the physicality upon the trigger that generates the exposure? I had this old exercise pull-up bar. I would physically pull myself up while squeezing the cable release to make an image. A step further was to somehow dismiss the awareness of the approach, so sleep became the plot but photography is the story.
For those observing these typologies of slumber, it’s unnerving. The abandonment of consciousness jars with the put-together sense of self we all seek in our waking hours. While undoubtedly an interesting photographic investigation,perhaps has its broadest impact as a reminder that each night, we all drop the performance as we share in the essential ritual of rest.
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