Fillip

Moyra Davey: Two Hot Horses
December 12th, 2020

Fillip is pleased to present a free, live-streamed lecture by New York–based artist Moyra Davey on Saturday, December 12, at 2pm PST.

For the talk, Davey will present a chronicle of the past year, speaking about her observations on photography and her method and practice leading up to new work and exhibitions in 2020.

Please RSVP here for streaming information.

This program was organized in conjunction with Moyra Davey’s participation in the 2020 Capture Photography Festival. For Capture, Davey presented work from Plymouth Rock (2019), a set of black-and-white photographs taken during a visit to the country home of Dalie Giroux, a political theorist in La Pêche, Quebec, during the making of her film i confess (2019). Special thanks to the Capture Photography Festival for their assistance with this program.

About the Speaker

Moyra Davey’s work comprises the fields of photography, film, and writing. She is the author of numerous publications including her latest, Index Cards (New Directions, 2020), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories, 2001). Davey has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2017); Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); Kunsthalle Basel (2010); and Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2008). Her work is found in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Tate Modern in London. She is a 2020 recipient of the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

This program was organized in conjunction with Moyra Davey’s participation in the 2020 Capture Photography Festival. For Capture, Davey presented work from Plymouth Rock (2019), a set of black-and-white photographs taken during a visit to the country home of Dalie Giroux, a political theorist in La Pêche, Quebec, during the making of her film i confess (2019). Special thanks to the Capture Photography Festival for their assistance with this program.