Brian Joseph Davis
Everything Begins and Ends at the Perfect Time
June 27–July 26, 2003

Many things go wrong in Brian Joseph Davis’ photos and short films: group encounter sessions take a turn towards the primitive; high school proms become sites of sectarian violence, a suburban house falls to pieces around its occupants. Everything Begins and Ends at the Perfect Time looks to the structures and clichés of suspense and horror to study how a story can go “wrong” and point to corrupt pedagogical narratives lurking in all aspects of society. This conflation of sublime horror with familiar, popular forms exposes the suppressed tensions ­ sexual, class and cultural ­ that are foundations of our collective social code.