The artwork Holy Family, depicts Mary cradling a giant penis, in the style of the famous Michelangelo sculpture The Pieta.
[6] He has also addressed themes of Australian politics and history, including unflattering portrayals of politicians like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and a sexualised, scatological reworking of the Burke and Wills story.
Critic Robert Nelson said that this exhibition demonstrated Davila's "resonant social voice" speaking out against an Australia in which "the unethical is normalized".
[8] In the catalogue essay for that exhibition Davila wrote: "Even most of our intellectuals today seem unable to formulate an idea of the nation we want, so facilitating the current culture of indifference to the reductionism under which we live.
We seem to have lost the capacity to relate to any other culture or being but the Western one….Social issues, disturbance, difference, misery, madness and strangeness are silenced by emphasizing in the other only that which resembles us, or by distancing the other and its desire as alien, thus erasing the capacity of anyone to address or challenge us…”[9] He is often linked with his friend and fellow Melbourne artist Howard Arkley, with whom he collaborated for an exhibition called Blue Chip Instant Decorator in 1991, at Tolarno Galleries in South Yarra.