Alexandra Davenport

Eyes on Talents member, Alexandra Davenport, is an artist and educator. Her work is centred around the body often adopting choreographic tools and strategies from dance as a means to explore the performativity of image-making. Her last work, Plassein, was exhibited earlier this year at the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie in Germany. Taking its title from the Ancient Greek verb meaning “to mold or shape”, it is a choreographic interpretation of neuroplasticity using performance and moving image to explore reorganization, adaptation, and growth. In the age of hyper-productivity, principles of neuroplasticity have been capitalised on with suggestions of how we might ‘rewire’ our brains to become more efficient. Plassein invites an alternative reading, with an emphasis on learning, growing and exchanging.