Womb Room was a performance, moving image and sound project initiated by Joely Mae Greally and curated by Francisco Rodrigues at the Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University in 2022. The convivial comprised of performative artist films by Greally in study of movement and queer transcendental contemporary practice through the act of movement and touch. Consisting of five moving image films of performances for camera, Greally invited participants and other practitioners to perform with them resulting in the material for this exhibition.

Both celebratory and melancholic was this exchange where projections played as a welcome into the season of Spring, following the non-delicate takings of Winter and that of life’s Winters.

The Womb Room assessed and orchestrated ritualistic and sensory exercises as visual and sonic armour where protection and vulnerability were paramount. What has both harmed our bodies and protected it? The contents of the Womb spread across the coalescing of the performative and the natural and how moment based individual customs are a means of placing temporary control on your own living and existence.

This exhibition was not just an investigation existing within the parameters of euphoria induced by sisterhood, sacred kinship and kinaesthetic formality but a container for states of repression and mourning. Seemingly congratulatory in honouring celebration, yet inherently sorrowful Greally’s space was an attempt to investigate matter of mind which evolved in a physical duration of becoming - addressing the communal and solitary.