The self-portrait has long provided artists with a site for examining questions of identity, perception and representation. In this exhibition, Davidson extends this tradition through an expanded photographic practice that shifts attention away from depiction and toward the material conditions of image-making itself. Beginning with self-portraits produced in the darkroom, where no image or light is registered onto film, Davidson employs a self-developed process that separates photographic emulsion from its paper backing, stretching the material to its breaking point. While the artist’s presence remains embedded within the act of making, his image itself never fully appears.

Davidson undertakes an experiment in stripping away image, colour and form that are extraneous to the viewing experience, creating a space for a deeper consideration of self-perception. Through this ongoing process of rupture and disintegration, he unsettles photography’s claim to fixity, repositioning self-portraiture as a site where identity, perception and the image itself remain fluid and unresolved.