Artists Films and Memory
Notes on Blue (2015) Moyra Davey
You can view Notes on Blue (2015) here
"Moyra Davey's work initially featured documentary photographs of her family and friends, and later came to focus on the quiet, overlooked details of daily life: coins, kitchen shelves, and clumps of dust gathered along the floor. Depicting outsize close-ups of the fronts of worn pennies, Davey's Copperhead series (1990), emphasises the circulation of banal, everyday objects individuated by the accumulation of human touch. In the mid-2000s, the moving image took on a renewed prominence in Davey's work.
Inspired by her deep interest in the process of reading and writing, the artist's essayistic video practice layers personal narrative with detailed explorations of the texts and lives of authors and thinkers she admires, such as Walter Benjamin, Jean Genet, and Mary Wollstonecraft." (Source)
You can read more about artists such as Moyra Davey in the book Lifework : on the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing, and theory (2024)
