Di-Andre Caprice Davis is a Jamaican experimental artist whose research-driven practice combines abstraction, computer graphics, GIF art, glitch art, mathematics, photography and surrealism into new visual languages.Born in Kingston, she builds her digital collages and looping GIFs from abstract images and from photographs and video she shoots herself, often using free mobile applications and online generators.,,
Davis's work explores how the human brain perceives and processes visual imagery, drawing on cognitive psychology, mathematics, music and technology alongside her own photography and video.,She completed residencies at Bluecoat in Liverpool in 2016and at Alice Yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 2018, where she presented work in progress from her ongoing project NOT YOUR KIND OF ARTIST, begun in 2017.,The project's title responds to the perception, common across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, that an 'artist' is almost always a musician or performer, leaving visual artists like Davis regarded with suspicion by the general public.
As part of the “Through a Fluid Mosaic” project,she produced More Than What You Thought, the third part of NOT YOUR KIND OF ARTIST, an eight-screen digital installation assembled from footage of Kingston and St Andrew and centred on the sea as a symbol of migration and displacement in the Caribbean.In her Chaotic Beauty series she folds mobile-phone footage of everyday scenes in Kingston into GIF collages layered with saturated colour and movement, comparing how the brain processes natural and synthetic imagery.,Other series include Overly Utopian Dreams, abstract GIF collages built from personal dream imagery, and Interplay of Irregularities, Unusual Interplay, in which glitch-like forms fold and collide with unpredictable rhythm.,
Davis's work has been exhibited in Jamaica, Australia, Barbados, Canada, France, Sweden, Trinidad, the UK and the USA, including in the “Jamaica Biennial” at the National Gallery of Jamaica in 2014 and 2017 and in “Kingston Biennial 2024: Green X Gold” at the same museum. In 2017 she won the Best Experimental Film award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival for Chaotic Beauty.