‘Neon Foxes’ was an exhibition exploring the hedonistic haze that is queer nightlife. Through imagined characters and real life figures, Patrick weaved a tale across the dance floor, across constellations of Showgirls, Club Kids and Twinks. Constructed inside the historic Parochialkirche in Berlin's Mitte district, the exhibition featured large scale oil paintings, a soundscape created in collaboration between UK based DJs Lucine Mounier and DJ LP along with lighting design by Berlin based Gerald. Navigating the space, the viewer was instructed to take time to get lost in the faces and atmosphere that emulated the atmosphere of the nightlife space. Celebrating or questioning the abyss that is queer nightlife, the beautiful surface and treacherous depths. Through life size, still life scenes, Patrick evoked a modernized and queer re-imagining of the Old Master’s and Impressionist paintings through his distinctive style and extravagant proportions. Depicting the decadent characters that catch your eye in the dark space of parties affected by saturated substances. 

In the light of the dance floor and the gleam of streetlights at dusk, through the sunrise, queers take on their most glorious form, and in the creatures crawling through streets we find kinship. They are Neon Foxes, beings alive in the night and on fire. Neon Foxes pays homage to the figures who make up queer nightlife, a moniker I feel encapsulates the finite magic that exists for queers in the night hours. As a queer person myself I have always felt a sense of solidarity with the night, when the world is devoid of stares and judgment, there is a liberation with darkness, to be finally allowed to be yourself with abandon. With nightlife there is a space to claim yourself without inhibitions. To experiment with your expression and your honest desires, be they reckless or thrilling. This attitude was present in the Molly-houses of the 18th century through Cabaret in 1920’s Berlin and onto New York Discos in the 1970’s. I hope to create an eternal nightclub alive in a hallucination through these paintings. Evoking the limbo that it conjures in its seemingly endless darkness. Be it freeing or dangerous, the highs and lows are noted in all of it’s thrill and pain, like any magic there is a lightness and darkness and a freedom that comes with this, however it also comes with a responsibility that can quickly be forgotten. Queer spaces are not ever present and serve as havens for our community when they do exist. Will we look back at this queer community with adoration or fear? With envy or disappointment? Depicting them here I hope to create an artifact of that space created, as if we have stumbled upon these paintings of people long ago. And wonder if, in anyway, we still see ourselves in the faces, or if the whole thing is just another blur of indulgence