This is Emma by Chu Yun

© Andrew Or

This photo was taken at the Freize Art Fair in London. The woman on the bed is "Emma" and she is asleep as she has taken sleeping pills and has earplugs in her ears. The concept is that medicine, in this case sleeping pills, have been used to change a human's natural state in an attempt to create beauty.

This living (or rather sleeping) art is by artist Chu Yun and whilst I am always amused at the thought of how living art can be sold I was even more amused when a man sat on the bed to have his photo taken.

The woman in the middle of the photo, who is standing, immediately jumped up from her chair to tell the man to get off the bed. Emma was not supposed to wake up though a few seconds later she did wake up.