Paho Mann & Leigh Merrill
March 3 – April 15, 2018
2127 Strand St, Galveston, Texas
Artists’ talks at 6:30 PM
In Collections, Keepsakes, and Souvenirs, Paho Mann and Leigh Merrill investigate our personal and cultural relationships to the objects we collect and environments we inhabit, while addressing ideas of value, memory, and desire. Observation, photographic representation, and the role of contemporary photographic technologies are central to their individual practices. Mann considers the role of technology and photography in the ways we observe and make meaning from mass-produced objects and personal collections. Through photography, video, and 3D imaging technologies, he examines the objects we own and consume to find evidence of our identity and culture. Merrill seamlessly combines thousands of images taken of the urban landscape to create digitally simulated environments that occupy the fine border between the real and the imagined. Her images explore the construction of desire, fiction, and beauty in our urban landscapes, and what she describes as “a culture of perpetual longing.”
