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 arrangements and damp interiors where time becomes soggy and stalls. At the same moment, they hold a residual charge: sex, humour, and the low-level chaos found at the tail end of things. Analogue noise threads through the installation, amplifying the suggestion of bodies in repetition, caught between recovery and continuation.

A series of prints and drawings, derived from documentation of events organised by the artist, feed this dynamic. Here, the event becomes medium, translated from the speed and volatility of performance into the slower, sedimented form of drawings made in Shannon’s bedroom. This echoes earlier work, that ...