This selection of Levy’s participatory, lens-based pieces situate women and non-binary individuals at the intersection of photography, labor, and the built environment.
Levy takes an interest in photography’s generative potential, its capacity to probe and visualize what is often hidden or ignored, frequently turning her lens towards environments or landscapes in flux or transition.
Levy collaborated with tradespeople in both apprenticeship programs and professional settings, providing a forum for conversation and demonstration of expertise.
Through research, observation, sketching, and discussion with her collaborators, Levy stages re-performances of acts or work that she has observed. This method of making enables the artist to disrupt the ways in which patriarchal power is traditionally modeled as a hierarchical system in hypermasculine professional realms.
The resulting images enact a form of world-making, where acts of labor and gestures of rest unfold within physical and material spaces that women and non-binary people build and transform of their own volition.
Deliberate framing choices leave cis-men at the periphery of the photographs, as Levy constructs a world almost exclusively populated by women and non-binary individuals engaged in a collective and speculative building project.
