Fiona Davies_
I work primarily with installation with video being part of that practice. One of my central preoccupations is around the ideas of death. Familiarity of death is not necessarily knowledge. Our own death can only be perceived as an eventuality, a possibility or an ambiguity. It is not something we have experienced. This inability to know in turn reflects back onto our understanding of the world. The dying of the other is all that we can know.
Earlier in 2008 I curated an exhibition called Looking At Others, stage one of three in a series. One of the central themes concerned issues of ambiguity and concealment particularly as it relates to the dying of the other. A common preoccupation of the artists was the absence, the idea that what is not there, what is not said, is the centre. The work of mine that I included in that exhibition examined the notion of the fluidity of the time of death.
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