EMILIA-AMALIA AT MERCER UNION
SESSION: MOYRA DAVEY
Thursday, 25 April 2019, 7 PM
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON  M6H 1N9

Artist and writer Moyra Davey offers a reading from her new monograph accompanied by a screening of notable excerpts from her film work. This event is part of EMILIA-AMALIA’s partnership with Mercer Union in response to the exhibition, Beatrice Gibson: Plural Dreams of Social Life. Through four public programs in the ongoing series SESSION, E-A invites artists and practitioners to consider Gibson’s propositions for collective authorship, feminist histories, and the maternal as an essential point of collision between the self and the external world.

Registration for the event opens 13 April, and is limited to 30 persons. This event is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration through Mercer Union. Please RSVP to office@mercerunion.org or 416.536.1519

Moyra Davey is an artist based in New York, whose work comprises the fields of photography, film, and writing. She has produced several works of film, most recently Wedding Loop (2017) as part of her contribution to documenta 14, Athens (2017). She is the author of numerous publications including Burn the Diaries and The Problem of Reading, and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Davey has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including: Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2017); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2016); 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 the Tate, UK. She is the 2018 recipient of the Scotiabank Photography Award, and in 2004 was granted the Anonymous Was A Woman Award.