The Art of Sleep by Tilda Swinton

The new role of Tilda Swinton is a sleeping man. The Oscar-winning actress can be seen at New York's Museum of Modern Art this month...sleeping. Tilda sleeps in a glass box on display at the museum. Museum visitors walk past the Moonlight Kingdom star as she sleeps peacefully in a glass box.

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1. This unusual installation is called "Maybe". It will last the whole month, but on what days - even museum employees do not know about it. The last time Tilda slept in the box was seven hours.

2. Also, the glass box is constantly standing in different places of the museum. On the first day, the actress appeared in a box in a simple shirt, jeans and sneakers.

3. Next to the box is a plate on which the actress is presented like any other work of art.

The sign reads: "Live actress, glass, steel, mattress, pillow, linen, water and glasses."

4. In numerous photographs taken that day, Tilda rarely changed her position, so the question "Did she really sleep?" remains open. Some museum visitors said they felt sorry for Tilda, because such an installation requires some physical effort.

5. However, this is not the first time that the actress agrees to sleep in public.

6. Tilda's first installation "Maybe" appeared already in 1995 in the London Gallery. And the next year, she also slept in one of the Roman museums.