Atlanta/New Haven/Brooklyn

June + July, 2025

Davion is a visual artist, educator, and critic based between Atlanta, GA, New Haven, CT, and Brooklyn, NY. He describes his work as a constant flow of doing and undoing; thematically informed by his personal upbringing, and out of the desire to know where his genealogical lineage comes from. The language for his artistic process rests at the intersections of visibility, endurance, stillness, memory, displacement, and connectivity; usually blurring and redefining his relationship between photography, sculpture, and installation.

About the Project: “There is history that sits beneath my feet in my grandparents backyard. In recent bodies of work I have travelled home to McIntosh and Glynn County to document various sites of oyster tabby shells, ruins, plantation grounds, and architecture. I want to deeply understand the roots and foundations of where I come from by documenting parts of the land that still hold original tabby ruins and foundations (related to slave trade and housing); to later create my own molds and studies for a longer term project. Each visit feels like a homecoming as I unpack a history that is embedded within the infrastructure of my upbringing. Through the camera, my desire to handbuild, and my intention to mine memory; my goal is to photograph and build different small forms of oyster tabby objects – using this as a time to process and to redefine the key materials I need to use to create.”