Network Bed (2017) comprises a sunken bed installation covered with foam and black velvet. The audience is invited to climb up some steps and then down into the work.

Overhead a projection (Update from the Wasteland II 1min02) shows a moth who’s colours are slowly morphing. Within the bed itself, a glass sculpture embedded with a raspberry pi screen shows ‘Update from the Wasteland I’ (6m53). As moths flutter inside the sculpture, two sets of headphones allow the audience to sit amongst the soft, warm space and listen to the whispered audio, a concrete poem from my twitter timeline. A sheer net hung with dichroic screens stripped from mobile phones screens the audience within the bed off from the rest of the gallery.

“Through headphones, Beales whispers disjointed sentences. Like the scroll of unrelated content from a Twitter feed, references to Trump are juxtaposed with mentions of cute cats and desperate pronouncements such as ‘We all fail, always’ and ‘I do not want to be human today’.

The effect is at once hypnotic and claustrophobic; the softness and darkness encourage intimacy, but the restless movements of the bright moths, distorted by the glass, suggest a distracted mind, trapped in a loop.” Lydia Ashman in a-n.