Deaccessionings No. 3 2020
The artist dyes pre-civil war cotton textiles using her blood as a proxy for the blood of her ancestors. This series calls for a visualization of the violence against enslaved Black people for the cotton industry during the 19th century.
Deaccessionings No. 1 2019
The artist dyes pre-civil war cotton textiles using her blood as a proxy for the blood of her ancestors. This series calls for a visualization of the violence against enslaved Black people for the cotton industry during the 19th century.
Fix 2017
In the performance, Fix, the artist asks the audience to straighten her hair. Because the artist exists and produces work in primarily privileged, white spaces, her goal is to have her audience confront the psychological violence perpetuated by a white beauty standard that values aesthetics such as straightened hair–violence that is often internalized by its victims.
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Candice Davis
United States
https://www.candicejdavis.com/
Candice Davis is an interdisciplinary artist from San Antonio, Texas, and living in Minneapolis, MN. Davis’ conceptual practice holds a mirror to White violence and complacency. She primarily focuses on digital media, installation, and performance as a means of witnessing for the trans-generational experiences of marginalized people. Davis recognizes her existence as a result of centuries of displacement, trauma, exploitation, and propagation for the benefit of Western capitalism. Her work explores an identity formed by generational survival of and resistance to imperialism. She has exhibited and performed collaboratively at venues including the Walker Art Center, Public Functionary, and Why World Gallery and individually at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Davis is a recipient of a 2019 Next Step Grant, is currently a Northern Lights Artist on the Verge 11 fellow, and will be in residence at the Weisman Art Museum, Target Studio for Creative Collaboration in Spring 2021.