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Emalin is pleased to present Welcome In ¹, Megan Plunkett's third solo exhibition with the gallery.
'You think about how many times an object has produced an economy around itself,' Gaddis told me. 'I like being in the food chain. I nibble on something, something nibbles on me.'
Paige Williams, Land of the Flea, The New Yorker, 2024
The prop exists in a permanent conditional tense. It is always almost the thing. It was made to be recognised and to stop just short of being believed, to hold the shape of meaning without closing around it. This is, of course, also what images do. And money. And language. The title Welcome In is a prop too. A threshold phrase engineered to feel warm; a little familiar. Somewhere between a ‘welcome’ and a ‘come in’.
Plunkett’s photographs, too, operate in the register of the almost-familiar – depicting props, but also found objects, consumer detritus, film industry replicas. They cultivate estrangement within things you thought you already knew. Working with…
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Emalin is pleased to present Welcome In ¹, Megan Plunkett's third solo exhibition with the gallery.
'You think about how many times an object has produced an economy around itself,' Gaddis told me. 'I like being in the food chain. I nibble on something, something nibbles on me.'
Paige Williams, Land of the Flea, The New Yorker, 2024
The prop exists in a permanent conditional tense. It is always almost the thing. It was made to be recognised and to stop just short of being believed, to hold the shape of meaning without closing around it. This is, of course, also what images do. And money. And language. The title Welcome In is a prop too. A threshold phrase engineered to feel warm; a little familiar. Somewhere between a ‘welcome’ and a ‘come in’.
Plunkett’s photographs, too, operate in the register of the almost-familiar – depicting props, but also found objects, consumer detritus, film industry replicas. They cultivate estrangement within things you thought you already knew. Working with…
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