Since he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1993, Robert Davies’ photographs have become ever more penetrative and absorbed by detail, exploring the perceptual foundations of our experience of the world. They have developed into meditations upon those things that our busy and fleeting gaze glosses over, compressed as it is by the demands of contemporary life. That the glance has superseded the gaze is a fact of our modern lifestyles; Davies’ photographs – increasingly abstract but invariably reality-based – seek to redress this imbalance.
Fußball, das ist tatsächlich ein profanes Mysterium, eine internationale Sprache der besonderen Art, und wer sie beherrscht, genießt Ansehen in der Welt. Davon berichten in dieser Ausstellung Bill Brandt, Robert Davies, Jens Schwarz, Nicola Schudy, David Steets und Stuttgarter Stephan Zirwes…