FLAT OUT: Dough Porn
Candace Rose Davies
VideoJanuary 24 - February 4, 2012
“The Alps fill the mind with an agreeable kind of horror”
-Joseph Addison
Candace Rose Davies’ practice employs drawing, photography, film, sounds and smells to magnify the unnoticed beauty of the everyday. Often working with video and installation, she strives to create romantic pockets of ordinary-sublime beauty using themes of humor and sensuality.
Davies often places found soundtracks over her films. The inspiration for Dough Porn developed after stumbling across a hilarious 80s porn film in a second hand shop. After much audio layering and tweaking of the music, gasps and exclamations, combined with dough slapping on breadboard, it evolved into Dough Porn.
About the Artist
Born in Wigan in 1987, Candace Rose Davies is an artist based in the north of England. She achieved a BA Hons degree in Fine Art at The Arts University College at Bournemouth in 2009 and has exhibited work in London and across the UK.
Davies is currently artist in residence at The Drumcroon Gallery in Wigan where, alongside her studio practice, she works as an Artist Educator delivering art workshops to children of all ages and abilities.
FLAT OUT is a bi-weekly rotating video series curated by Nicole Bebout. For the series, new works by emerging and experimental artists from across the globe are displayed on a LCD screen mounted at the entrance of AC Institute.