Gerwyn Davies

Artist Statement

While the camera is conventionally claimed to possess a unique capacity for revealing something of a subject to its viewer, in my own practice, I instead perform acts of queer photographic dis/appearance.

My figure is buried beneath elaborate costumes that mutually entice yet resist examination, while the image is polished and manicured, emitting an implausible synthetic glow.

This double bind of a figure both conspicuous before the lens yet nowhere to be seen — hiding in plain sight — reflects my ongoing interest in the potentials of queer representational in/visibility through which subjects are empowered to pass before the camera un/seen.