Moyra Davey: Burn the Diaries

Moyra Davey

• Other Authors Alison Strayer (Contributor)
• Title

  Moyra Davey: Burn the Diaries

• Date 2014
• ISBN 9780985337728
• Publisher Brooklyn, NY : Dancing Foxes Press, 2014.
• Description 104 p; 8 in; b/w and color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection
• Summary

  In the oeuvre of Canadian-born, New York–based artist Moyra Davey, literature and writing are as significant as photography, film, and video. In Burn the Diaries, Davey considers the work of French playwright and political activist Jean Genet (1910–1986), while examining fugitive moments from her own life. An essay by her childhood friend and reading companion Alison Strayer, written in response, reflects on Davey’s themes. The publication is part of a group of works—also including photographs, a film, and an installation of her signature mailers—and can be read both as an artist’s book and a catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at mumok, Vienna, and the ICA, Philadelphia, in 2014 (Dancing Foxes Press). 

• Tags Bard2017, Photography