Galerie Elbchaussee Altona Hamburg - 2019 - Limited Edition of 6 Photograph

Sofia and Sappone take photos of themselves in hotel rooms at locations all over the world. Each image and location is unique, but the pictures are always taken with a compact Leica camera using the self-timer feature. 10 seconds to photograph love. Untitled Bed-Ins are self-portraits by Sofia & Sappone. The photographs are inspired by the Bed-Ins of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and are also an homage to Cindy Shermann's Untitled Film Stills. Since 2006 Sofia and Sappone have been endeavoring to express the idea of love and peace within a contemporary context. The project that emerged is at the same time personal, evocative and intimate. In the tradition of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Sofia and Sappone succeed in invoking and enriching the legendary Bed-Ins. Stories that emerge from their work are deeply autobiographical, and deal with culture, politics, music, sex, film, art, literature, architecture and religion. The artists are not concerned with clearly recognizable information, rather their photographs inspire free associations. The majority of the pictures were planned in advance. Time and again, however, the artists had to react spontaneously to the characteristics of the locations and unanticipated events. The deliberate use of various “stolen” motifs of other artists is cleverly employed as a stylistic device that transitions the viewer into an accomplice and investigator.