Vasconcelos’s predilection for integrating everyday functional items in her artistic practice stands out in her works Valium Bed and Aspirin Sofa. A bed and a sofa, respectively, are covered in foil-wrapped Valium tablets and aspirin. Supposedly comfortable and inviting pieces of furniture now appear as clinical and alienating elements. Aspirin is known for its painkilling and fever-reducing qualities while Valium is often linked to anxiety attacks and sleeping problems. Vasconcelos’s inside-out version of the home environment recalls the psychoanalyst Lucian Freud and his definition of Das Unheimliche (Uncanniness). Uncanniness is here characterised by embodying an element of the familiar albeit in a twisted form, giving it a new frightening expression. Vasconcelos presents the home as a mental, claustrophobic condition where stimulating medicine is required in order to survive. Valium Bed and Aspirin Sofa thus represent an endless movement where medicine will offer temporary relief while the suppressed – and hence uncanniness – will gradually intensify.