You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

Alexandra is a London-based artist and educator working primarily with performance, photography, and text. Signalling back to a history in dance, her work is centred around the gestural body, adopting choreographic tools and strategies from dance as a means to explore the performativity of image making.


The relationship between the body and the camera is central to her research and recurring themes in her work include; the body as image, neuroscience and representations of women in visual culture. She is a recipient of 2020 A-N Artist Development Bursary, using the funding to develop the choreographic aspect of her practice.

"Davenport has too used the body as object, interrogating limbs and joints as tools in an unyielding desire of autonomy. But she seeks to take control by unpacking the structures that are always subtly present, reclaiming the body as object as a source of subversive power"

— Melissa Fielding

exhibitions

2022
2021
2019
  • RE:production, A Performance Affair; Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium
  • Vogue Ukraine Art Issue Exhibition; Set Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Dancing In Peckham; Peckham 24, Copeland Yard, London UK
  • Stop Motion: In Search of the Still Image; Hanes Art Gallery, USA
  • Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition; York Art Gallery, York, UK
  • The Same Tendency; Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2018
  • Visions in the Nunnery; The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
  • London Nights; The Museum of London, UK
  • Orbit Graduate Show; Oxo Tower, London, UK
  • Show 2018; Royal College of Art Battersea; London, UK
selected others
  • OffPrint; Tate Modern, London, UK (2017)
  • The London Art Book Fair w/ Archipelago Books; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2015)
  • Athens Photo Festival; The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2015)
  • Belfast Photo Festival; Belfast Photo Park, Belfast, UK (2015)

press / features / interviews

2020
2019
selected others