Patric Rogers Unveils Introspective New Show at Boys’ Brigade Building for Independents Biennial
Opening 17 July at the Boys’ Brigade Building in Liverpool, A Fall at the Edge of Sleep is the latest solo exhibition from multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Patric Rogers, presented as part of this year’s Independents Biennial.
A member of Material Matters, Rogers is known for his emotionally resonant practice that blends sculpture, photography, and film. 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.
The exhibition emerges from a space many will recognise: that uncanny moment between wakefulness and sleep, where clarity slips and the mind spirals. Rogers describes it as “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.
A Soundtrack will accompany the exhibition from Oregon based abstract musician and photography artist Daniel Menche