Three readymades from the domestic space are the subjects of Chamutal Bar Cohen’s artistic research. A laundry line is organized into a repetitive geometric form; a roll of absorbent paper is embroidered in a traditional ornamental pattern; and a second-hand piqué blanket serve as a platform for the documentation of the range of body temperature measured daily over the course of a year. 

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In sequence of laborious actions, Bar Cohen carefully disrupts the order and logic of familiar objects in well-planned actions, cancelling out their functional value and subverting their material limits. The unexpected encounter between the cheap, available industrial object and traditional handicrafts and the repetitive actions applied to it (e.g., embroidery, wrapping), make it possible to rethink the value and status of the practical object after it was manipulated and sentimental and symbolic values were displaced onto it. Items taken from the sphere of cleaning and maintenance of the domestic space provided the artist with a sensation of control and security that increase during her performance of the actions: the repetitive, laborious work acts as a spell that calms and protects the private space.