Critics’ Picks: Cass Davis

“Revival II, 2016, is a black-and-white Jacquard weaving that depicts a feral scene of holy-rolling, speaking-in-tongues Christianity, featuring a group of white fundamentalists possessed by ‘The Spirit’ in a moment of disturbing, manic salvation. In the rural Midwest, this stripe of extremist faith has long been connected to white-supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan. Unlike the media-savvy, pro-Trump religious figures of today’s headlines, the subjects of this piece aren’t aware of the camera—they’re swept up by their almighty God, a figure of pain and deception that abandoned any trace of benevolence long ago.” Read more here!