No one reads bedtime stories to mothers anymore

"No One Reads Bedtime Stories to Mothers Anymore" (2026) explores the body as a site of memory, intimacy, contradiction and return. Through fragmented self-portraiture, moving image and spoken text, the work moves through the many states of inhabiting a body: motherhood, love, desire, refusal, pleasure, anger, exhaustion, solitude and play. It considers the shifting relationship between wanting and refusing, being touched and withdrawing, holding and letting go, and the different selves that can exist within one body. Domestic gestures and traces—hair, bedsheets, pillows, skin—become evidence of lives inhabited and moments remembered. Rather than seeking to resolve these contradictions, the work asks what it means to inhabit them, and to recognise the body as its own.