TIM DAVIES: IN AND AMONGST @ FOLD GALLERY
December 2012
Paul Carey-Kent

by Paul Carey-Kent

FOLD latest show in its spacious new Clerkenwell location, another very varied solo with removal at its heart, surveys Tim Davies’ work both before and after he represented Wales at the last Venice Biennale . Erasure succeeds here in the removal of the background from postcards of bridges to leave the crossings abstracted and purposeless. Other disruptors include fire, fear and trembling: burnt boards from an elaborate performance using scattered nails as a template; videos of psychologically charged movement through buildings; a hand rippling architectural reflections in the Grand Canal; and the deconstruction of more modern buildings to quake-like effect by selectively rotating collaged elements.