Moyra Davey (born 1958, Toronto, ON) is an artist known for her experimental films that take root in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that pair photography and language.
[3] The venue presented more than two dozen exhibitions, one of them Davey's self-organized project “Reality / Play.”[4] She edited the anthology Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, published in 2001 by Seven Stories Press in New York.
[7] Davey's first solo survey, Long Life, Cool White, was organized by Helen Molesworth in 2008 at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, where she was curator.
[9] In 2011, Davey completed work on her third short film, Les Goddesses, which followed her historical fascination with the 18th-century feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft; her writings, her partner William Godwin, and her progeny.
For each location, she created site-specific large-scale photographic installations, which arrived at their respective venues via regular airmail, as individual prints, folded up and taped.
[25] Titled Index Cards, the paperback included essays on photography, art making, reading and writing, and the historical figures that inspire much of her work, such as Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, Jean Genet, and many others.