BEDMOUNDS
Noah Kalina
When we think of beds, we usually think of them as neatly made, waiting to be used. Noah Kalina wanted to undo that, to pull back the covers and sculpt a monumental shape out of the fabric where our bodies would be, and where our bodies have been, as both a still-life (of the materials of sleep) and a portrait (of someone's presence).
Bedmounds is the culmination of Kalina’s long-term project creating and capturing sculptural forms in the middle of beds around the world. The mounds appear to take on anthropomorphic qualities, highlighting the relationship between presence and absence. Bedmounds takes a common scene and adds a twist – subverting what we are expecting to see by inserting something unanticipated.
Released December 2019
Photographs by Noah Kalina
Essay by Zach Vitale
Hardcover, 7.625 x 10.25 inches
96 pages
Edition of 500
ISBN: 978-1-949608-13-7
Trade Edition: $50.00
About Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is a photographer and filmmaker. His client list includes Google, Gucci, and Disney, and his photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and Le Monde. His two-decade project, Everyday, was parodied on “The Simpsons." He lives in upstate New York with a rooster named Marcel. In his free time, he makes bedmounds.