STORIES, SECRETS, SEPSIS
FRANKIE SYMONDS
SOTO is thrilled to announce a solo show of Frankie Symonds' various bodies of work: Stories, Secrets, Sepsis, curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe. This show is comprised of an array of intersecting media: painting, sculpture, video, photo, and drawings, contemplating themes of queer militance and community, childhood mythologies, social media, and visceral human drives. Symonds’ work pushes us to explore the darker side of ourselves - to confront and examine behaviors and representations that we often seek to avoid and suppress. They utilize the self as a vehicle to combine grandiose themes with the mundane and specific - exposing the tension between existential and tedium.
Frankie Symonds is a queer filmmaker and multimedia artist. Their work has shown across the U.S. and Europe at numerous venues and festivals including: Anthology Film Archives, ICA Boston, MFA Boston, Pantalla Fantasma, and OutsiderFest. Their work ranges from experimental and poetic considerations to plays on traditional forms of art and cinema, and focuses on the violence, fear, eroticism, anxiety, and obsession that informs and manipulates the movements of isolated individuals and their various cultures.
Frankie Symonds is a queer filmmaker and multimedia artist. Their work has shown across the U.S. and Europe at numerous venues and festivals including: Anthology Film Archives, ICA Boston, MFA Boston, Pantalla Fantasma, and OutsiderFest. Their work ranges from experimental and poetic considerations to plays on traditional forms of art and cinema, and focuses on the violence, fear, eroticism, anxiety, and obsession that informs and manipulates the movements of isolated individuals and their various cultures.