This exhibition of work by Fiona Davies at the
Hockey Gallery, Farnham, consists of huge panels of white, silk paper hanging
across the gallery forcing the audience to weave a path through them. They
reference shrouds, sheets, and body tissues and seem to breathe and move as the
viewer passes between them. They developed from Fiona’s experience of her
father’s ‘medicalised death’ and a subsequent project looking at the use of
silk microchips to monitor blood inside the body. Having made silk paper for
many years, I was impressed by the sheer size of the panels, but disappointed
that there was no blood on the silk. The panels are hung at least a metre from
the ground and I found the sight of other people’s disembodied legs distracting
although it was reminiscent of the view seen under hospital curtains.
Paradoxically, I found the view from the balcony looking down into the gallery
much more immersive than actually being among the sheets. That meditative view
allowed the vast size and beauty of the sheets to be experienced.
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