I Confess: Moyra Davey

National Gallery of Canada and Dancing Foxes Press, 2020

“Some things are only imaginable in the third person,” Moyra Davey writes, paraphrasing Roland Barthes in her new book, (2020). She acknowledges that, for both of them, writing in third person is typically “unimaginable.” But throughout her book, Davey refers to herself interchangeably as “I” and “she,” distancing herself from the autobiographical text through third-person narration. was published alongside Davey’s retrospective exhibition, (2020), at the National Gallery of Canada. The book is a monograph of Davey’s new film of the same title; it includes stills from the film, a selection of Davey’s drawings and photographs, as well as the film’s script