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Another Day in the Kingdom
SETAREH X is pleases to present the first solo exhibition with LA-based artist Frances Waite.
27.11.21–08.01.22
SETAREH X is pleased to present LA based artist Frances Waite with her first solo show in Germany Another Day in the Kingdom.
In a subversive approach Waite‘s detailed and almost photorealistic pencil and paper drawings confront the viewer with oftentimes very intimate scenes. While her previous pictures were overtly and directly sexually charged, her current body of work has a more personal character. The sense of sexuality is most often evoked by only one figure, or even the still lives that Waite weaves into the narrative. Waite’s eye for what is sexual is focused on the very mundane scenes we overlook – the tip of a knife, the folds of a pile of clothes, a dangling necklace. The privacy to which they allude is inviting, rendering a voyeur of its spectators.
Frances Waite
Another Day in the Kingdom, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
146.1 x 116.3 cm | 57 1/2 x 45 3/4 in

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Frances Waite's pencil and paper drawings confront the viewer with often very intimate scenes and voyeuristic perspectives. The detailed elaboration of the works slows down the view of the motifs, reminiscent of snapshots. The almost photorealistic impression is repeatedly broken up by certain irritations, surreal pictorial elements and deliberate over-drawings.
Frances Waite
Evidence of Something, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper 61.1 x 46.1 cm | 24 x 18 in
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Frances Waite
Regular Life, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper 61.1 x 46.1 cm | 24 x 18 in
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Frances Waite
Need Water, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper 41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
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Frances Waite
Smells Like Soap, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
61.1 x 46.1 cm | 24 x 18 in
Frances Waite
Hangover Nap, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
31.1 x 41.1 cm | 12 x 16 in
Frances Waite
Scary Hot Girlfriend, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
51.1 x 36.1 cm | 20 x 14 in
Frances Waite
Protect Me From What I want, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
Show It Off, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
What's the Rush?, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
61.1 x 46.1 cm | 24 x 18 in
Frances Waite
Got a Sinker, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
28.6 x 25.1 cm | 11 x 10 in
Frances Waite
Angels Everywhere, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
26.1 x 18.1 cm | 10 x 7 in
Frances Waite
Drama, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
18.1 x 26.1 cm | 7 x 10 in

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Frances Waite
Anything for a Girl in a Vest, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
31 x 24.9 cm | 12 x 10 in
SETAREH X is pleases to present the first solo exhibition with LA-based artist Frances Waite.
Frances Waite
Feeling Alive Watching Dumb TV, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
31.1 x 41.1 cm | 12 x 16 in

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Frances Waite
Bend Over Alone for Once, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
51.1 x 36.1 cm | 20 x 14 in
Frances WaiteBlissful Dissociation, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
3 pm, Release Me, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
46.1 x 61.1 cm | 18 x 24 in
Frances Waite
Sleepy Time, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
It's The Little Things, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
138.7 x 117.8 cm | 54 1/2 x 46 1/2 in
Frances Waite
Scary Girlfriend, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
26.1 x 18.1 cm | 10 x 7 in
Frances Waite
Like Forever Ago, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
35.7 x 37.8 cm | 15 x 14 in
Frances Waite
Shaving a Toe for a Special Occasion, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
31.1 x 41.1 cm | 12 x 16 in
Frances Waite
Sympathetic, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
No AC Hottie, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
One Thing At a Time, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
30.7 x 25.1 cm | 12 x 10 in
Frances Waite
Horn Player with Baggage, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
41.1 x 30.5 cm | 16 x 12 in
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Love Losing, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
41.1 x 31.1 cm | 16 x 12 in
Frances Waite
1 am, 2021
Pencil on Arches Hot Press watercolour paper
26.1 x 18.1 cm | 10 x 7 in
Frances Waite
Bye Bye baby, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
35.1 x 38.9 cm | 14 x 15 1/2 in
Frances Waite
Sisters Listening to PJ Harvey in 1999 on a School Night, 2021
Pencil on Fabriano Rosapina paper
36.2 x 34.5 cm | 14 x 13 1/2 in
Frances Waite (b. 1993 in Rochester, NY, US) graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Drawing in 2015. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows, including Elijah Wheat Showroom, New York, Cob Gallery, London, Western Exhibitions, Chicago and Tiger Strikes Astroid & Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles. Waite’s work has been featured widely in the media, being published in FUNKT Magazine, Dazed, Paper Magazine, Playboy Magazine, VOGUE and Vice’s the Creators Project, amongst other.