Moyra Davey: Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest

First  Edition, 2017. 128 pages.

Book measures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Softcover in dust jacket. includes 120 images with Texts by Moyra Davey and an introduction by Aveek Sen. This book by Davey is based on two related projects, Les Goddesses (2011) and Hemlock Forest (2016), which each take form through text, photography, and film. Layering introspection and personal narratives with meditations on the lives and works of other writers, filmmakers, and artists—ranging from 18th-century feminist writer and activist Mary Wollstonecraft to Chantal Akerman, Karl Ove Knausgard, and Davey’s own five sisters—the artist explores such themes as compulsion, artistic production, family, and life and its passing.

A Fine / as new copy.