Exeter Phoenix is pleased to present Men Falling a solo exhibition by Cornwall-based artist Naomi Frears, which includes newly commissioned and other recent works spanning film, painting and print. Working across these disciplines, Frears’ practice explores forms of everyday choreography, incorporating androgynous figures, ambiguous gestures, fictitious landscapes and disembodied dialogues. Her works juxtapose personal encounters and observations with visual material drawn from cinema, fashion, domestic interiors and landscaped locations.

Throughout, Frears pushes and pulls at you, suggesting and then withdrawing from an intimacy that, at times, verges on the confessional and at others meets you with a stylish, even frosty, indifference. The new film work Men Falling, which gives the exhibition it’s title, has been created with the support of the Exeter Phoenix Artists Moving Image Commission.

A further new work, In Other Words, commissioned by the neighbouring RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum) is on display throughout the exhibition as an intervention to their two storey Courtyard Case. The artist’s daughter and celebrated poet Ella Frears has been co-commissioned by RAMM and Exeter Phoenix to write a new work that will also appear in and make connections between the artworks featured in both venues.

The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication and set of limited edition risograph prints.

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