Paris can stay in bed

A body of work which explores interests in territory, transparency, fragility and transition.

Paris can stay in bed is a line from Leo Carax’s 1991 film, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge). With grim radiance, the film charts the story of two fractured individuals discovering each other on Paris’ oldest bridge, upon which themes of abandonment, freedom, desire and redemption are played out with the city as a backdrop. Aligning with these multifaceted and fragmented themes, potent relationships are key to the experience of these works and whilst they may be explored through form, material and structure, a deeper, more complex introspection permanently resides. The work strives to take the viewer on a celebratory journey full of twists and tangents, crossings and meeting points, conjuring both the immediacy of the here and now and the sense that elsewhere is never far away.