{"id":3388,"date":"2010-02-22T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:59:28","slug":"dust-videos-by-moyra-davey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2010\/02\/22\/dust-videos-by-moyra-davey\/","title":{"rendered":"DUST: VIDEOS BY MOYRA DAVEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, February 25, 6pm<\/strong> | Moyra Davey in person!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Still from “Fifty Minutes” (Moyra Davey, 2006). Courtesy the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

New York-based photographer and writer Moyra Davey is known for her finely observed photographs of domestic interiors. Her graceful, straightforward images catalog life\u2019s in-between moments and overlooked objects–still lifes of crowded bookshelves, empty whiskey bottles, and dust.\u00a0 In recent years, Davey has turned to video, combining her eye for the everyday with a literary voice.\u00a0 This evening, she will present two of these works. In Fifty Minutes<\/em> (2006), Davey uses the standard length of a therapy session to examine her own history with psychoanalysis while also raising questions about autobiography, nostalgia, and the ways we all come to know and invent ourselves. In My Necropolis<\/em> (2009), she explores notions of history, biography, and the memorial, by pairing images of Parisian gravesites (Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, and others) with a lively, open-ended interpretation of an enigmatic letter written by Walter Benjamin from 1931. Davey, writes admirer John Waters, \u201cwill catch you off guard with her smudged, elegant, low-tech intelligence.\u201d Moyra Davey, 2006-09, USA, Beta SP video and DVD, ca. 90 min (plus discussion).<\/p>\n

MOYRA DAVEY<\/strong> (b. 1958, Toronto, Canada) is an artist and writer. In 2008, she was the subject of an expansive survey at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Recent group exhibitions include Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 <\/em>at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); and Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones<\/em> (with James Welling and Claire Pentecost), Orchard, New York (2007). Davey is the author of Long Life Cool White<\/em> (Harvard\/Yale, 2008) and The Problem of Reading<\/em> (Documents Books, 2003), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood<\/em> (Seven Stories Press, 2001). She was a founding member of the collaborative gallery Orchard in New York; with Jason Simon, she co-hosts the annual One Minute Film and Video Festival in Narrowsburg, NY. In 2008-9, Davey participated in the International Residencies Program at The Cit\u00e9 des Arts in Paris. She is a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman award, and is represented by Murray Guy in New York.<\/p>\n

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