A FALL AT THE EDGE OF SLEEP

A Fall at the Edge of Sleep is the latest solo exhibition from multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Patric Rogers, presented as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial 2025

In this deeply introspective new body of work, he explores the fragile emotional terrain of the present, where reality feels elastic, unstable, and continually shifting.

"This work has emerged in our time of global chaos when disorientation feels like a daily condition. It's hard to describe that sense, but I keep returning to the feeling that happens just as you’re falling asleep and suddenly jolt awake, panicked, unmoored, unsure for a moment where or who you are. The collapse into consciousness.”

The exhibition emerges from a space many will recognise: that uncanny moment between wakefulness and sleep, where clarity slips and the mind spirals. Like a fall at the edge of sleep.

A sensation of drifting, snapping back, and questioning what is real. These works capture the dissonance of living in a world marked by both horror and beauty, offering a quiet, meditative response to collective uncertainty.

What unfolds is not only a personal reckoning, but a call for shared healing, a search for meaning, connection, and the possibility of repair in a fractured landscape. Through this lens, A Fall at the Edge of Sleep becomes less an exhibition and more a space to pause, to feel, and to begin again.

“That’s the feeling I’m exploring: being unsettled by our collective reality while also feeling utterly helpless in the face of the world’s relentless savagery, and yet, somehow, still in awe of its beauty, its fragility, and the quiet strength of communities holding each other through it."