Artists

Katie Shannon

Press release

Bedding stages a compressed interior: a melancholy space where desire, labour and rest fail to align, producing a landscape shaped under pressure. The exhibition oscillates between interior collapse and exterior projection. The 'outside', figured through performance, nightlife and social excess, appears not as escape but as a manic counterpoint to inertia. Shannon cuts through this impasse with a libidinal current and a restless energy of bodies, encounters and intimacies that choose to persist within relative constraint. Three beds occupy the space, invoking both a want for conjunction and a dispersal of intimacy. They suggest states of poly-impotence and its discontents, a diffuse, bankrupt erotic economy. These are not beds of rest but of negotiation; sawn off mattresses squashed and compromised, recalling makeshift living situations, hospital beds, foam-cut furniture and mattress ads.