we are all eating and being eaten, 2025
Lismore Regional Gallery
Curated by Ineke Dane
We are all eating and being eaten: across these works, the body and its environment are continuously recomposing and (re)constituting themselves in a cyclical relationship to the landscape. Davies explores the porous boundaries between bodies—human, plant, mineral—and the ecosystems they inhabit. The viewer is invited into the rhythms of consumption and decay, into the intimate thresholds where the body—both their own and others—dissolves into earth, stone, and memory.
Desire lingers in the soil, clings to skin, embeds itself in the grain of rock. Seeking out the points of convergence where memory, sensation, and longing fuse into form; where the body's edges blur. The stone body, the earth body, the plant body. The body is both archive and animal, both eater and offering.
Working with materials like latex, clay, soil, and leaves, the artist engages in a tactile dialogue with the land; pressing, molding, absorbing. Her processes echo frottage: both the artistic technique of rubbing surface textures into visibility, and the erotic tension of bodies brushing in close proximity. These dual meanings resonate through the work, where touch becomes a site of translation, transference, and transformation
35mm photography, audio recordings and text function as temporal imprints; fragments of breath, gesture, and landscape, tracing moments of contact between the body and the more-than-human world.
The artist invites viewers to consider the tender violence of aliveness, to dwell in the fertile tensions between growth and rot, pleasure and entropy. We are all eating and being eaten.
Photographs taken by Cherie Winter © Lismore Regional Gallery 2025
