By Rebecca Krinke with essay by Camille LeFevre

Published by Bookmoblie, 2019

Rebecca Krinke has transformed her Bedtime series of bed sculptures (seen at Rosalux Gallery, Northern Spark, and other venues) into a new book, Bedtime Stories: Sculptures Reimagined, with an essay by arts journalist Camille LeFevre.

In Bedtime Stories, Rebecca reimagines her series of bed sculptures by digitally combining photographs of her prior installations with photographs of places where the sculptures have never been and might never be found, such as along Lake Superior, in the American Swedish Institute, or on fire in a forest. “The resulting images extend the ‘dreamspace’ of the sculptures into new settings, offering new daydreams,” Rebecca says. “My intent was to experience the beds as if in dreams, transported in time and place. I’ve wanted to physically install my bed sculptures in a variety of settings, and in this work, the sculptures change locations via Photoshop. My practices of keeping notebooks and making sculptural books kindled my interest in seeing the bed series transform, as a new subject, into its own book.”

In her essay in Bedtime Stories, LeFevre writes: “Krinke makes special her beds, as meme and art installation, yet again, transporting them to another realm of the imagination: the book. In these pages, the bed is elevated to a character, protean in its details and materiality as it floats, hangs, or burns in the most unlikely places: industrial, natural, cultural. In these Bedtime Stories, no victims or villains, princesses or princes exist. Krinke has become both fabulist and fabricator, writer and rescuer, progenitor and protagonist of her own story as an artist and woman. Now it’s your turn to dream.”

Acknowledgements: Sydney Shea, Bria Fast, and Zhiyun Cheng made this work possible. Thank you.