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Lost from ViewHolly Davey

12 April - 24 May 2008

Holly Davey is a Cardiff-based artist whose work centres on improvised performance. This site-specific show at Mission Gallery concerned memory: the building's past life as a space and the history that it holds, the dreams, aspirations and wishes of its past and present visitors.   Davey spent time researching the space and uncovered a fascinating story regarding two Davey sisters who were married in the gallery when it was a chapel.  This remarkable coincidence inspired a series of private performances which took place in the gallery, the outcome of which became part of the exhibition.  

The exhibition featured photographs that record some of the performances she enacted with her camera on a timer. In the resulting photographs we see her hoisting herself up to out-of-reach windows, and receding like a shadow into the corners of the gallery.  This work is, as Davey describes it, her "imprint on that space at that moment".

Holly Davey studied at Goldsmiths College, London and past exhibitions have included ‘A Third is You' at St Davids Hall, Cardiff and ‘Innocence and Despair' as part of g39's ‘One in the Other' season. In 2006 she won the Young Photographers Prize at St Davids Hall ‘Welsh Artist of the Year'.

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