Bed Time Stories

Bed Time Stories is a series of paintings and photographs set within the intimate yet impersonal space of hotel bedrooms. These rooms become surreal stages, presenting scenes that blend fantasy with discomfort and the familiar with the strange.

The bedroom, often thought of as a place of rest, imagination or intimacy, takes on a more complicated role in this series. For some, it remains a sanctuary. For others, it becomes a site of loneliness, anxiety or unease. LUAP uses the visual language of popular culture to frame these spaces through a sexualised and distorted lens, drawing out the tensions between appearance and reality.

Works in the series carry titles such as Horny Beast, Human Traffik, Maintenance Required, Followers and Vanity. Together they explore themes of objectification, power, identity and the curated lives shaped by digital culture. LUAP points to the disconnection between the glossy surface of what we are sold and the unseen costs that lie beneath, from personal harm to wider exploitation.

Through Bed Time Stories, LUAP asks the viewer to reconsider what is hidden behind the fantasy, and what we may prefer not to see.