With the installation "Sleepers", the artist wanted to create a portrait capable of representing contemporary society. She imagined a community of 360 gray beings in a state of deep sleep, without ears and with their eyes closed, symbolizing the isolation and indifference that characterizes a world increasingly connected to injustice and violence. These gray beings, innumerable like human faces, but each unique, were molded in raw clay to emphasize the lack of maturity and simultaneous uniformity of human reactions. They represent the variety and individuality of humanity, but also reveal the tendency to follow the same habits and behaviors as in a hypnotic state.
In this installation the artist placed herself from a 360° point of view, trying to fully understand the complexity of the human condition, including her own, to try to objectively evaluate the social context. Representing this community of individuals in a state of sleep, Hamraz Darugar wanted to underline our distance from real life and our inability to act.
