Riposo (2021)
Lena Chen & Michael Neumann
Site-Specific Installation

Riposo is a site-specific installation at the Piazza Roma in Vimercate exploring rest and relaxation as politically subversive antidotes to our current system of production. The city square is surrounded by banks, restaurants, and other businesses. Riposo disrupts this system of profit and dominance with a hammock installation in which the public is invited to rest, meditate, and sleep. The hammock is designed with a fabric that features the Piazza Roma digitally manipulated into a surreal dreamscape.

Pasithea (2021)
Lena Chen & Cristina Söderström
Performance

The artists carry a hammock from MUST Museum to the city center of Vimercate. They walk clockwise in Piazza Roma as church bells ring. By interrupting the town’s commercial activity through public acts of meditation and sleep, they use rest to become receptive to inner wisdom and to spiritually fortify themselves. 

Commissioned by MUST (Museum of the Vimercate Territory) for the 2021 V_AIR Vimercate Art in Residence.