Tania Candiani

Mattresses Mantras consists of a series of interventions on recycled mattresses using phrases of love, pain, satisfaction and desire.

The pieces were conceptualized and produced between the United States and Central Europe: two different universes, which are linked through words, coming from porn movies and hot-line forums, which were embroidered on the mattresses.

Mattresses are associated with intimacy, rest, dreams, security, and home, but they are also fraught with sexual implications and different forms of violence.

Mattresses Mantras represents the cruel game of seduction in these spaces where objects and words are conceptually related.