GERWYN DAVIES

✨🌵Mirage 🌵✨ a series of new photographic and textile works by Gerwyn Davies at Jan Murphy Gallery 🦂 @janmurphygallery

Shot in Southern Arizona, the photographic series poses elaborately costumed figures against extreme desert conditions.

“The spectacle of the mirage resonates with my ongoing photographic practice — the complications of visibility; the blurring of boundaries between authentic/artificial, real/ imagined; and the obscured portrayal of my figure that ensures it remains always just beyond visions’ reach.

This series, Mirage, responds to time spent in Southern Arizona, an almost cartoonish landscape of blistering extremes that is at once breathtakingly hostile and seductively sedating.

In Mirage, a series of figures are captured adorned in vivid costumes that glisten and entice, yet the elaborate material surfaces also resist a clear view of what lies beneath.

This toying with the conventional terms of the photographic portrait and its capacity to expose and reveal something of a subject, is a hallmark of my practice to date in which I routinely pass before my own camera un/seen.”

— Gerwyn Davies, 2024