All my Beds Installation
Bed sculpture, digital prints, wood, framed photograph
26 × 109 × 199,5 cm
2025
Rehearsal
3 silkscreen images taken from a 1957 USA
Television program “Father Knows Best”
50 x 70 cm
2013
A selection of images taken from Atakan’s collection of photographs of beds she slept in since 1994 have been arranged in a wooden bed-like structure. A small framed photograph of the 4-year-old artist and a friend sits on top. Behind this sculpture, on a transparent cloth triptych panel hang three silk screen prints taken from the 1950s television series, “Father Knows Best”. Standing in front of a mirror a teenage girl shares secret feelings: “My life is awful; “You are ugly, fat, and stupid, no one loves you”; “Everyone has a boyfriend while you are all alone”.