The self-portrait has long provided artists with a site for examining questions of identity, perception and representation. In this exhibition, Davidson extends this tradition through an expanded photographic practice that shifts attention away from depiction and toward the material conditions of photography itself.

Beginning as self-portraits made in the darkroom, where no image is permitted to form, the works undergo a self-developed process in which the photographic emulsion is separated from its paper support and stretched to the limits of its material stability. Through repeated acts of tension and rupture, the photograph is progressively reduced to the material trace of its own making. In doing so, the works suggest that neither identity nor photography is fixed or complete.