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CASS DAVIS


INDEX

Exhibitions
Revelations
Out of Time
All Together, Amongst Many
HEARTLAND
Of Roses and Jessamine
Network of Escape

The Harvest
Backyard, Monolith
Rapture, Apparition
Harvest, Transcendence
Harvest, Rapture
Memory, Fragment
Harvest, Ecstasy
Harvest, Revival
Witness
Raising Girls
Revival
Revival ll
Half-Staff
Roadside, Devotion

The Good Old Days
SUNDOWN TOWN
Whose Good Old Days? 
Baptism
Under the Cover of Darkness
Dinner is Served
Slain in the Spirit
God will/will god lead us

truth, the bathers, Christ mocked


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Cass Davis


Raising Girls    2019

Aspect Ratio Gallery LITHIUM Gallery

Video installation + Performance,
Photographic installation,
Cinema view here



Performance at LITHIUM Gallery, June 2019. Screening of Raising Girls, sound and performance collaboration with CSO Cellist Katinka Kleijn. Performance documentation by Farah Salem.

Davis and Kleijn attempt to divine the inherent sounds from within textiles, bodies, and exhaustive tension. A phenomenological expedition fully heard but only seen with the light from Davis’ video Raising Girls.

Raising Girls parses out gender, sexuality and patriarchy within Evangelical America. It explores the gendering of girls, James Dobson’s pardon of serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy, reclamation of sacred feminine spaces, play, innocence, and the queer gaze. Frames of the video move between what feels like archival images, to crime scene photos, to glimpses of intimate bodies. Flashbacks form an afterimage that burns a memory that is mesmerizingly difficult to reconstruct. Through sound and image, Davis and Kleijn propose new ways of accessing embodied trauma.

*Special thanks to artists María Luisa Conlon, Polly Jane, Ona Siân, and Chloe Cucinotta







Raising Girls, Photographic installation.