Eva Davidova: Imagining Post-Capitalism Festival, San Francisco

Intentions by Eva Davidova

May 03 2018 8:30 pm

Oakland’s City Hall, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza

Intentions explores the failure in the representation as a means of protest; the emergence of non-dualistic, ancestral realities in the folds of the cutting-edge technologies, and the profoundly false public-ness of public space. It addresses the fictitious neutrality of data and its mixture with our bodies. Deceptively “cold” and “objective”, data becomes public space, where our mental spaces are seized, enraptured, or excluded. By destabilizing the “given”, even seemingly insignificant actions can transfer the power of making and distribution of information. There is no protection but the one of knowing in detail and subverting all the techniques of manipulation and social engineering.

Intentions is part of the Imagining Post-Capitalism Festival (May 1-6, 2018), produced by Pro Arts in collaboration with Shaping San Francisco.

About the Artist

Eva Davidova is a Spanish/Bulgarian multidisciplinary artist based in New York.

The issues of her work—behavior, cruelty, ecological disaster and manipulation of information emerge as paradoxes rather than assumptions, in an almost fairy-tale fashion. Her practice involves drawing, performance, installation, computer generated 3D sculpture and photo-based animation.

Eva Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum in New York City; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; MACBA, Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia; Contemporary Arts Center La Regenta and many others. She received the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art; the 2009 Djerassi Honorary Fellowship; fellowships for many artist residencies programs; and support from the Shearwater Foundation. Davidova was an artist in residency at Residency Unlimited, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts / Art Works Grant.

Recent shows include Intentions at ZAZ 10 Times Square billboards, Collapse of Visionat Equity Gallery New York, Birds Birth at the ASU Emerge Festival and at the PhotoEspaña Festival in Madrid; the curatorial project Happenland at Radiator Gallery in NY; Playground for Drowning Animals; and Transfer and Disappearance at the Media Center by IFP in New York.

Intentions by Eva Davidova is made possible by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

She will also be part of Raw in Mia http:/rawpopupmiami.com/