Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey

Toronto, Ontario

Moyra Davey is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing. Since the 1980s she has exhibited widely, received numerous awards, and her work has been acquired by prominent institutions.

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Hemlock Forest 2016 (5)

Hemlock Forest traces the worlds of Karl Ove Knaugsard and Chantal Akerman as Davey considers the implications of her son leaving home and Akerman's suicide.
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Wedding Loop 2017

A wedding party reflected through the work of 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
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My Saints 2014

Following Jean-Pierre Gorin, and other New Wave filmmakers, Moyra Davey’s transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the writer’s construction of the narrative, between text and reader, between word and interpretation. The film My Saints is a collective portrait of friends and family as they interpret a passage from Genet’s journal—in which he watches a friend frantically search for money that he stole—and elaborate their own experiences of deception. Davey’s project is one in which a text becomes a source for delving into a rigorous scrutiny of one’s self.