Moyra Davey, Kartotek (Index Cards)

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About the book

In the essay collection Karotek (Index Cards), spanning from 2006 to 2019, Moyra Davey often starts from herself in her artistic creation. It can be about a thought born somewhere in everyday life – on the subway, at home, or in the studio when she writes, reads, or photographs. A personal thought that quickly connects to someone else's, a reflection woven together with others' thoughts such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Hollis Frampton, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many others. In the essays, we follow her associative trains of thought, feel how her writing takes shape and her investigation of how, what, and who should be depicted primarily in the photographic image but also in literature. The essays become a personal narrative about the necessity to create, where the narrator constantly confronts herself and critically revisits her own memories and our shared history.

Swedish edition

Translator: Emma Hatt
Editor and graphic design: Filmögon
Pages: 232 pages
Publication year: 2025
ISBN: 978-91-527-5091-9

Original title: Index Cards (2020), Moyra Davey
Selection: Nicolas Linnert

About the author

Moyra Davey, born 1958 in Toronto, Canada, and active in New York City since the 1980s, is a visual artist whose artistic work encompasses photography, film, and writing. Davey has produced numerous films; her latest feature film Horse Opera (2022) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to Index Cards, she has authored a handful of books, such as I Confess, Burn the Diaries, and The Problem of Reading, and has been editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Her visual art has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2019); Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2017); Bergen Kunsthall (2016); Mumok, Vienna (2014); Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); Kunsthalle Basel (2010), among others.

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