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Les goddesses : hemlock forest / Moyra Davey ; with a text by Aveek Sen.

Title
Les goddesses : hemlock forest / Moyra Davey ; with a text by Aveek Sen.
Author
Davey, Moyra
Publication
Bergen, Norway : Bergen Kunsthall ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Dancing Foxes Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Sen, Aveek
  • Clark, Martin, 1976-
  • Sekkingstad, Steinar
  • Kelly, Karen
  • Schröder, Barbara
  • Bergen kunsthall host institution.
Description
125 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Initially known for her work in photography?which she has been making over the last three decades?New York?based artist Moyra Davey (born 1958) is also an esteemed writer, editor and, most recently, filmmaker, whose works layer personal narratives with explorations of other authors, filmmakers and artists. This book is based on two related projects that take form as text, photography and film. Les Goddesses (2011) collapses the lives of Davey and her five sisters with those of the daughters of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century feminist writer and activist. Hemlock Forest (2016) weaves references to Wollstonecraft, Chantal Akerman and Karl Ove Knausgaard with her own family stories. During the making of Hemlock Forest, Akerman took her own life. Her death soon engulfed Davey?s awareness, prompting a broader exploration of Akerman?s and her own biographies, amid more universal themes of compulsion, artistic production, life and its passing.00Exhibition: Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (28.10.2016 - 08.01.2017).
Alternative Title
  • Hemlock forest
  • Les goddesses Moyra Davey hemlock forest
Subject
  • Davey, Moyra > Exhibitions
  • Davey, Moyra
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic
Genre/Form
  • Artists' books – 2017.
  • Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Hemlock Forest' (Bergen Kunsthall, October 28, 2016 - January 8, 2017), curated by Martin Clark and Steinar Sekkingstad," --Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Low-hanging fruit / Aveek Seen -- Les goddesses ; Hemlock forest / [Moyra Davey] -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- List of images.
ISBN
  • 9780998632605
  • 0998632600
OCLC
  • 986529696
  • SCSB-10430293
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library