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Marinaro is pleased to present The Exit, a solo exhibition of new work by Meredith James, and her first show with the gallery.
In this body of work James turns her lens toward the architecture of an abandoned office. Through meticulously constructed dioramas and photographs, she examines the aesthetics and emotional echoes left behind in this cubicle workspace, designed for efficiency yet marked by decay.
James' photographs were taken in New York City during the pandemic, when the viability of office space was called into question. In the actual office, James used mirrors to manipulate space in the photographs, creating odd angles and ambiguous repetition. These photographs became the basis for four wall sculptures. In her three-dimensional dioramas, James integrates the intersecting planes of the real spaces and the reflected spaces. Mirrors interrupted the coherence of the photographs, those glitc…
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Marinaro is pleased to present The Exit, a solo exhibition of new work by Meredith James, and her first show with the gallery.
In this body of work James turns her lens toward the architecture of an abandoned office. Through meticulously constructed dioramas and photographs, she examines the aesthetics and emotional echoes left behind in this cubicle workspace, designed for efficiency yet marked by decay.
James' photographs were taken in New York City during the pandemic, when the viability of office space was called into question. In the actual office, James used mirrors to manipulate space in the photographs, creating odd angles and ambiguous repetition. These photographs became the basis for four wall sculptures. In her three-dimensional dioramas, James integrates the intersecting planes of the real spaces and the reflected spaces. Mirrors interrupted the coherence of the photographs, those glitc…
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