Following on from Bedwyr Williams’ much talked about Fly piece, we‘re delighted to present a new commission by Cardiff-based artist Holly Davey which features on the lightbox at the front of Chapter.

Since January this year, Davey has been using the often hidden spaces of Chapter — the stairwells, offices, roof — for experimentation and to explore new ways of working.

Davey uses her body pictorially to mark out a series of frozen tableaux within an otherwise fluid choreography. These ‘photographic performances’ take place between the artist, the camera and the audience, and you are invited to see a trace of the performances as photographs. The camera becomes Davey’s audience, with the lens acting as a mirror. The final image is un-manipulated and remains the closest possible document of how Davey understood she would look as if viewing herself through the lens.

I Told You So features Chapter’s inaccessible rooftop which Davey used as a space in which to move freely, dance and interact with the architecture. Each photograph taken as part of her residency acted like an imprint on that space at that moment in time and they are all linked by a series of improvised responses. The final selected image provides a stunning and perhaps disturbing snapshot of Davey’s interaction with our old school building, and with the city above and beyond it.

Holly Davey studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Recent exhibitions and commissions include: Tell It To The Trees, Croft Castle (2010); En Residencia, Laboral, Spain (2009), and Lost From View, Mission Gallery, Swansea (2008). She is undertaking a residency and commission as part of For Mountain, Sea and Sand, Barmouth in the summer.

A print (edition of 25) of the full lightbox image is available to buy from The Shop, priced at £100.

www.hollydavey.com