L'Endormeuse is an attempt to investigate the relations between  reality/fantasy, subject /object, active/passive, private/public and suggests a hybrid environment, a room-machine of an hypnotic experience which comprises out of three elements: the rotorelief ( the sleeping machine), the “tub” ( the sleeping space) and the bed.  

The design of this installation-room began with the transformation of Marcel Duchamp’s’ hypnotic disk “Chinese Lantern”, one of the Rotoreliefs, in three dimensions creating the spacial dimension of the geometric motif of the disk.

The geometry of the Rotoreliefs is based on eccentric circles slightly misplaced, which produce a warp and the illusion of a three dimensional space when they turn with the help of a motor at a steady rhythm. The beating rotating movement of the rotoreliefs is related with the throwing of the pottery maker and from the Anemic Cinema by Duchamp we are transferred conceptually at the tub of Diogenes in which he slept. L’Endormeuse is an attempt to redefine this constitution and to point out their relation in spatial dimensions.   

The logic of the eccentric circles is also transfused at the design of the sleeping space, the “tub”, which is the steady part of the construction. A cavity is created, a type of grotto, grooved on the inside as an optical continuity of the rotating part of the construction, into which the bed is adjusted in a way so that the gaze can be focused at the rotating rotorelief. 

This is about an installation, a kind of experimental sleeping-room that exists as an isolation space in which the user is behaving passively and is subjected by the room itself in the sleeping routine. L’Endormeuse being a machine acts as a “conductor” between consciousness and the state of sleep and under certain conditions can lead to the hypnopompic and hypnagogic experiences. It would be characterized as a container of accumulation of the space of sleep as a dimension and as an experience.