Filed Under: Embarrassment, Dialectic, Francesca Woodman
Filed Under: Embarrassment, Dialectic, Francesca Woodman
Moyra Davey. Ferns, 2024.
CA: What were you channeling when you made Ferns?
MD: Primarily, I was thinking about the work of Francesca Woodman––her using herself to construct her pictures.
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, 1978.
CA: Your work has often been framed through an engagement with or rejection of the figure. Do you feel connected to this dialectic or constrained by it?
MD: I’m finally resolved to being connected to this dialectic, though still embarrassed I took so many of its arguments at face value.
Interview and selection by Caitlin Anklam.
Moyra Davey was born in Toronto in 1958. She earned a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, in 1982, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego in 1988.
