Range and Diversity of Work
Clearly, Daudy is not defined through a single mode or medium. Across time, though she has remained true to her roots, Kate has expanded her thoughts and actions in multiple ways. The following examples reveal how this method has come to be expressed across time.
‘It Wasn’t That At All’
Daudy spent some time in 2010 as an artist-in-residence at the Saatchi Gallery in London. During that time, Kate undertook research and collaborated with Egyptologists at the University of Oxford. The result was ‘It Wasn’t That At All,’ an exhibition which effectively served as her response to the blockbuster exhibition being shown at the gallery, entitled "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh." The exhibit attracted critical acclaim, and continues to influence even Daudy’s most recent work – as evident by the Egyptian key of life finding its way into Kate’s more recent piece entitled “Punctum: Future
Nostalgia,” produced during a residency at Meteora, Greece in 2022.
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” is an installation involving a standard issued refugee tent, provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which Daudy inscribed and embroidered with phrases and quotations of displaced persons she met in her travels. As part of her research on the topic of home and identity, Kate traveled to the Middle East and Europe. Questioning all types of people – peace-workers, religious leaders, soldiers, diplomats, aid workers, doctors, and refugees themselves – about what could be learned from the refugee crisis in Syria, Daudy decided the tent would be the best medium on which to reveal what she had learned.
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” has been exhibited at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, at Manchester Art Gallery, and at BIAS Palermo, Italy. But it was not the only product produced.
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