“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 published on a-n 18th Sept 17

Shown as part of ‘Are We All Addicts Now?’ (2017) at Furtherfield.

In the exhibition ‘Update from the wasteland I’ plays on a raspberry pi screen embedded in a solid glass sculpture as part of ‘Network Bed’ (2017), a sunken velvet bed installation.