The Bed Sitting Room

Rebecca Ackroyd, Okiki Akinfe, Charlie Engelman, Zayd Menk, Alexandra Metcalf, Phoebe Nesgos, Hamish Pearch, Tom Schneider, Jaime Welsh, Kiki Xuebing Wang "Twenty survivors of the apocalypse go about their business amidst the rubble, despite mutations that gradually change them into furniture or bargain housing." Lomex is pleased to present The Bed Sitting Room, an exhibition organized by Ginny on Frederick. Borrowing its title from Richard Lester’s 1969 absurdist comedy, The Bed Sitting Room imagines a landscape of polite catastrophe, where adaptation becomes both a necessity and a performance. It brings together artists whose works inhabit this uneasy aftermath: figures, images, and objects persist through societal collapse, and rearrange themselves with a stubborn propriety. Scenes and surfaces maintain their manners even as the systems around them fall into decay. Gestures loop, postures harden, and fragments arrange themselves into a makeshift order. The mood is not tragic but faintly ridiculous—a kind of post-catastrophic decorum. The Bed Sitting Room continues Lomex’s commitment to highlighting the work of its peer galleries and their programmes.