Exhibitions

Venue: Art Sheffield 2010, Sheffield

Dates: 6th March–1st May 2010

Preview: 5th March 2010

Notes: Commissioned collaboration with Jimmy Robert. Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.

Davis and Robert have both previously produced works that use art historical moments as points of departure, often re-presenting existing material combined with representations of their own bodies.

Informed by successive waves of feminist art and theory, Davis has rethought representations of the female body in response to art historical fragments through photography, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and film. Working across a range of media that includes photography, film, sculpture, print and collage, as well as performance, Robert has a similar interest in exposing the fragility of representation by exploring the relation between image and object, drawing attention to the dynamics of different surfaces and making subtle transitions from an image to its concept and from a text to an idea.

‘A Conversation between A and B’, is a new collaborative work developed specifically for the context of Art Sheffield 2010. Presented as poster works across the city of Sheffield, it is at once a public and private dialogue, prowling the parameters of the life room to unpick a linear reading of that floorspace and beyond.

Supported by The Elephant Trust