Leigh Davis

I create collaborative projects, often with a focus on how people utilize, inhabit and conceive of their living spaces. Through photography, video, and installation, I have presented my work in a variety of nontraditional settings, in order to create public situations where viewers can engage in a process of discovery with my subjects. Architecture, social practice, and theories of perception are at the core of my research. My subjects are rooted in the relationships that I develop with others, ranging from a community of women living in a residence hall, to a variety of performers (including a choir, a tap dancer, a Michael Jackson impersonator, and a conductor). My recent project is entitled, everything that ought to have remained, and documents the expulsion of the aged members of a religious order from their home on the grounds of a former military hospital in New Mexico.