Eva Davidova at Collapse of Vision

Spanish artist Eva Davidova presents her work in this group exhibition curated by Jessica Porter in collaboration with Residency Unlimited.

Equity Gallery hosts Collapse of Vision, an exhibition that combines the perspectives of four artists whose work each uniquely addresses environmental, social and behavioral issues. Eva Davidova explores the transfer of cruelty from an individual decision to a facet in a complex network of decisions through performance, photo-based animation and computer generated 3D sculpture. Dakota Gearhart works to collapse hierarchical standards whether social, material or informational through video and multi-media installations and the use of abandoned materials. Ryan Kuocreates software simulations of family dynamics and uses video game tools to coax erotic performances from furniture, leaving us to question the anthropocentricity of user-based technology. Farideh Sakhaeifer, through the use of photographs, sketches and collage deconstructs the remnants of war and crisis to explore the collapse of the individual through despair and loss.

About Eva Davidova

Davidova is a Spanish/Bulgarian multidisciplinary artist based in New York. The issues in her work –behavior, cruelty, ecological disaster and manipulation of information emerge as paradoxes rather than assumptions, in an almost fairy-tale fashion. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum in New York City; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; MACBA, Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla and Instituto Cervantes, Sofia among others.

She received the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art and the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship. Recent shows include Birds Birth at the ASU Emerge Festival and at the PhotoEspaña Festival in Madrid; a curatorial project Happenland at Radiator Gallery in NY; Playground for Drowning Animals; and Transfer and Disappearance at the Media Center by IFP.

Opening reception on Thursday, November 30, from 6 pm to 8 pm.