Amanda Wall’s new solo show “Beddy Bye” opens today at Almine Rech, Paris

Amanda Wall’s new solo show “Beddy Bye” opens today at Almine Rech, Paris

Beddy Bye introduces a new chapter in Amanda Wall’s painting: beds filled not only with bodies—stacked, entangled, multiplied—but also with roses, cables, bullets, cherries, still lives charged with tension. She employs painting as an explosive language, made of vivid color and nearly abstract gestures, to chart her psychosexual landscape: solitude, self-obsession, softness, and perversion. The bed emerges as a central metaphor for interior life, individuality, and isolation. The figures—most of which resemble the artist herself—become what she calls “a fragmented self in this fractured reality.” Yet, in her vibrant canvases, the bed is no sanctuary; it becomes the site where narcissism unravels, collapses, explodes—the paradoxal production of subjectivity today.

On view until October 11th

Text and Images by Olivier Zahm