Christine Davis has long pursued an installation based practice that, while it eschews easy stylist classification, has resulted in a range of highly evocative and influential works. Her slide projection based installations and photo works are intellectually demanding, yet simultaneously resonate on visual, visceral and material levels. Interweaving technologies old and new, the range of her conceptual and material exploration is, following the lead of Michael Snow, unusually innovative: words laser etched onto contact lenses, genetic code sewn into armor and her extraordinary slide dissolves onto material screens that combine analogue optics with digital control.
At its core, her work addresses the conception and representation of the body at key and transformative moments in the history of modernism, from the nineteenth century, through to the current moment. It draws on highly wrought histories of visuality and explores the interconnections of such histories to mechanistic, technological and scientific cultures as well as concepts of the divine.
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