Tim Davis
Blantyre, Malawi, 1969
Tim Davis is an American visual artist, musician and poet. His photographic work delves into formal aspects of photography (light and abstraction) as well as socially engaged documentary. He is the author and subject of several books, including Lots, Permanent Collection and My Life in Politics, plus a book of poetry titled American Whatever.
His photographs and videos have been exhibited in public institutions including the Whitney Museum, Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Knoxville Museum. Selected solo exhibitions include White Cube, London, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY. Several monographs of his work have been published including The New Antiquity [Damiani, 2009] and My Life in Politcs [Aperture, 2006] Permanent Collection [Nazraeli, 2005]. He is the recipient of the 2007- 2008 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize and the 2005 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Walker Art Center, among many others. As a writer, he is a regular contributor to periodicals such as Aperture and Cabinet. Davis lives and works in Tivoli, NY and teaches Photography at Bard College
Latest Photobook
Tim Davis Tim Davis, Hallucinations — Curated by Marco Delogu,
in collaboration with Flavio Scollo. Texts by Tim Davis, Elisa Medde, Marco Delogu e Flavio Scollo
Softcover with flaps, 20,5×30 cm
144 pages, 128 color photographs on Garda Gloss
8 pages, 4 photos on uncoated Sirio Paglierino
tot, 152 pages; 132 photos; 2022
Tim è uno sciamano che ci guida in questo suo viaggio e la cui terrenità ha preso forma lungo i 2700 km percorsi da Sassari a Cagliari, addentrandosi nei paesi barbaricini, in quelli dell’Ogliastra e dell’oristanese. L’atto spirituale è invece la visione che ci viene restituita, una percezione in continuo deragliamento: il sardo più che s’istrànzu (sia esso continentale o statunitense) riconoscerà alcuni luoghi e certe dinamiche come familiari e tipicamente sarde, ma rimarranno entrambi increduli di fronte ad altre immagini. È ancora la Sardegna questa, o un pezzo di Los Angeles è entrato prepotentemente in contatto telepatico con noi?
Marco Delogu in collaborazione con Flavio Scollo
