Los Angeles-based painter Amanda Wall presents Beddy Bye at Almine Rech Paris, Matignon, from September 12–October 11, 2025.

The exhibition centers on the bed as a site of intimacy, memory, and transformation. Wall depicts bodies and objects intertwined: boys pressing faces together, girls collapsing into one another, cherries tangled with cables, and bullet casings that could be mistaken for lipsticks, a motif she calls the “ultimate still life.” The figures are imagined composites drawn from memory, social media, and her own reflection, rather than portraits of specific individuals.

Amanda Wall is a self-taught painter based in Los Angeles. Her work explores intimacy and the uncanny, blending voyeurism and societal concerns. Using a palette that contrasts vivid colours with flesh tones, Wall examines vulnerability. Her subjects hover between abstraction and distorted reality. Known for her precise craftsmanship, Wall’s paintings navigate the space where form and distortion coexist.

In these new works, the bed becomes a stage where the private and public, the physical and digital, intersect. Figures merge and overlap, suggesting both the fluidity of identity and the way contemporary life shapes the spaces we inhabit.

This is Wall’s fifth solo show with the gallery and her first to feature multiple figures in a single composition.

Image: Amanda Wall, Anon, 2025 – Oil on linen – 101.6 x 127 cm, 40 x 50 in / © Amanda Wall – Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech – Photo: Matthew Kroening