Group Exhibition: Come Rot In My Bedroom

At Accent Sisters, amid the constant labor of organizing exhibitions, events, publishing, logistics, and survival, a recurring theme returns in conversation: paralysis. We see paralysis in missed deadlines, in the suspended gap between email and message, in blank-eyed scrolling and bed-rotting.

We invite you to think of this stasis as a reality to make peace with instead of a phase to overcome. We live with and are at one with mess, delay, clutter, screens, food, fabric, residue, and unfinished tasks. In this exhibition, we stay with our existential anxieties and make kin with decay.

For one week, Accent Sisters’ gallery becomes Alison Long’s crusty dysfunctional bedroom, a restless resting space. The bedroom appears as a site of everyday living and everyday failure. We invite artists into an intimate conversation about bed rotting and burnout as cultural phenomena of contemporary life. From our rotting selves emerge expression, humor, image-making, confession, and performance. Exhaustion becomes meme, language, posture, aesthetic, and social bond.

The works in Come Rot in My Bedroom include intimate and raw demonstrations of exhaustion, collapse, stuckness, and failed maintenance. They move through domestic debris, compulsive media consumption, and the emotional weather of contemporary life. Some inhabit humor and absurdity. Some stay with dullness, shame, or numbness. Some register overstimulation and spiraling. Some hold the aesthetics of breakdown as they appear in the body, the room, and the image. Together, the exhibition treats failure as common knowledge and decay as an embraced experience. We rot together in a way that can be spoken, embodied, staged, and witnessed in company.

Opening Reception and Performance:

During the opening reception, we stage the familiar contemporary ritual of bedrotting in public. Alison Long will perform bed-rotting for a live audience. Visitors can interact by DMing Instagram reels for her to watch or offering takeout food.

Jiaba supper club will be partnering with the event as the creative caterer with a special menu designed for the exhibition. Food and drink tickets are available for purchase at online registration and at the event.