Alex Frost is one of the most distinctive artists working in Scotland today and DCA is proud to present his largest exhibition to date. The Connoisseurs is an exhibition defined by the seemingly disparate series of artworks that Alex undertakes – from intricate murals to polymer clay sculpture to his multiple approaches to drawing. The Connoisseurs presents a configuration of numerous distinct references: digital technology, food science, community craft workshops, dystopian fiction and macro economics.

Safe centres around Carol White (Julianne Moore, star of recent DCA films A Single Man and Chloe) who develops ‘multiple chemical sensitivity’ to her environment – a very comfortable middle-class California. At first the story feels like a departure for the director of Poison and Superstar – The Karen Carpenter Story, but the disintegration of the central character is just a more detached form of provocation to supposed normal society. When Carol’s closeted suburban existence eventually leads to a total breakdown, her only salvation seems to be at a ‘New Age’ retreat for the socially dysfunctional. Haynes’s cold and detached tone is ambiguous without any clear resolution of Carol’s fate. As the tagline reads . . . in the 21st century nobody will be... Safe