Eloise Fornieles: From the deep waters of sleep

31.Aug.07 - 02.Sep.07
Wed - Sun, 12 - 6pm

Paradise Row
17 Hereford Street
London E2 6EX
+44(0)207 6133311
info@paradiserow.com
www.paradiserow.com
Tube Liverpool Street, Bethnal Green, Spitalfields / Brick Lane

Paradise REow will be open constantly throghout the 48 hour period of the performance.

From the deep watersof sleep I wake up to consciousness
I feel my heart beating too. It will go on beating for some time.
Then it will stop.
I wonder whether the little heart that has beaten with mine has stopped.
When he passed the border of birth, I laid him at my breast,
Rocked him in my arms.
He was very small then.

A white body of a man, rocked in the arms of the waves,
is very small too.
Johanna Adriana Ader-Apples, 1975

In the second of her trilogy performances at Paradise Row, Eloise Fomieles engages with the subject of loss. For the 48 hour duration of the performance, Fomieless will attemp to stay awake, trapped in a wooden lifeboat, marooned on a sea os salt that will fill the gallery. During the performance Fornieles will be taken messages from the audience adressed to people or things lost to them, and sending them out in Morse Code. As the performance continues and the artist wearisher actions will deteriorate, becoming desperate and hopeless.

The piece is initially inspired by the final work of Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader, "Searching for the Miraculuos", in which he attempted a solo crossing of the Atlanctic. He sailed from Amerika with the intention of arriving in Holland, but was lost at sea. "From the deep waters of sleep" is from a poem written by Aders mother, Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels.