Shedding Bedding | Exhibition Statement 

 

Shedding Bedding explores the bed as both a physical site and a psychological landscape. Mimicking the patterns of blankets, quilts, and sheets the artist used from childhood through young adulthood, the installation deconstructs the barriers of a bed to expose its layered meanings. Rather than a private space of rest, the bed is reimagined as an environment that holds memory, intimacy, and vulnerability. The work examines how the bed, an object designed for comfort, can simultaneously become a site of discomfort, shaped by personal history and shifting emotional landscapes. The physicality of materials suggests shed skin, loose stuffing, and aging. The installation marks time while considering how proximity, access, and familiarity evolve, forming boundaries that are as much psychological as they are spatial. Shedding Bedding invites viewers to reflect on their relationships with the spaces they intimately inhabit and how those spaces, like the self, constantly evolve.