March Exhibition: 'The twenty- nine days of Blood on Silk: Trade' by Fiona Davies

The exhibition is of twenty-nine versions of the video work Blood on Silk: Trade. There is one work for each day of the exhibition. The changeover to the next video at the beginning of the day.  The videos were shot in the hardware retail district of Beyoglu in Istanbul. The work is meditative, almost abstracted, shot from a single position looking down six floors to the street below where three hardware shops are opening up for the morning’s trade. The choreography of the street is revealed as each shop prepares their public face for their customers, their trade.  That given moment of the day is entered into, observed and felt. Co-incidences of repeated actions are observed and noted.