CARDIFF.- Tim Davies has been selected by the Arts Council of Wales to represent Wales at the 54th International Art Exhibition, at a new location for Wales at the Biennale, Santa Maria Ausiliatrice: the Ludoteca in Castello. One of Wales’s leading artists, Davies works in a range of different materials, including, found imagery, sculptural installation, collage, framed works, and film. He is a memorable image-maker. Often the images are wrought by painstaking and meticulous, repetitive labour, honouring ethics of work, production and systematic interventions. Known for his installations that challenge power structures and globalization, Davies once returned a Victorian parquet floor salvaged in a reclamation yard in Swansea to the rainforest of Belize where the wood was originally sourced and cut down by slaves. It was a signal piece of his particular layered and serious art – at one and the same time a conceptual a