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THE BODY IS ON (left) and Death Ensues.
Executrix (left) and THE BODY IS ON.
object petit aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (above) and THE BODY IS ON.
object petit aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (above), THE BODY IS ON (middle), and Death Ensues.
THE BODY IS ON detail.
THE BODY IS ON detail.
Kitty F Davies is an artist, dirt-worker, and professor based in the USA. Read more >

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Work

Desertification After Bouguereau
Series, drawings

When I’m This Close
Painting

THE BODY IS ON
Sculpture, installation

Death Ensues
Sculpture, installation

Executrix
Drawing, installation

objet petit aaaaaaaaa
Sculpture, installation

Maximum Black
Series, collage

Portal Drawings
Series, drawings/performance

Telling the Future Through a Portal
Performance

same4same
Sculpture, collaboration

accumulation: homologue
Performance

Not Because I Need You to Know
Coming soon | Series, drawings

accumulation: focet [sic]
Performance, sound

Spot the Difference
Sculpture

FilthyDirty
Coming soon | Series, paintings

lovefight
Coming soon | Series, drawings

fridge drawings
Coming soon | Series, drawings

Exhibitions

Desertification After Bouguereau
2026, McLean County Arts Center

Telling the Future Through a Portal
2025, University Galleries

THE BODY IS ON
2025, University Galleries

a cut ting / inci sion
2023, Julian Gallery

Curatorial

Student Work

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THE BODY IS ON

2025

Installed at University Galleries, Normal, IL, USA.

About

THE BODY IS ON

2025. Glass ampoules, pH-balanced honey, the artist’s excised breast tissue, latex, brass plaques, brass hardware, oak, glass, 100 years.

Death Ensues

2025. Etched brass plate, oak, undyed latex, lashing rings.

Executrix

Ink on paper, undyed latex, oak, brass hardware.

objet petit aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2025. Twenty-three feet of the artist’s hair, brass escutcheon pins.

To be dead to love is to be dead to thought itself. Under global imperial capitalism (Erysichthonic desperation), we are compelled to reduce thought to mere work in place of creation/desire. Loving is a giving of oneself—not in the mode of sacrifice-is-pain, i.e. Western Christofascism, but via a courageous discovery of the Other.

A gift for a future the provider will not see, a sweet clot of medicine that will fix everything, if one can interface with the body transformed. Trust is predicated on an absence of knowing. It is brave and necessary to turn away from the fetishization of hyperindividualism and to trust in communion with others. If we don’t, we’re fucked.

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