International Juried Photography Exhibition

THE FOUND OBJECT

Opening Night Reception: July 19, 6-8PM
Exhibition Dates: July 19 - Aug 9, 2025

The “found object” is a concept rooted in early 20th-century avant-garde practice: the idea that ordinary, often discarded materials can hold aesthetic or conceptual value when reframed as art. A "found object" is a material artifact discovered and assigned aesthetic value in an artist’s hand. Found art may include a wide array of objects—discarded, forgotten, dropped, or misplaced—such as shoes, forks, shopping carts, signs, doll heads, abandoned cars, clocks, mementos, or any object that can be reimagined through the lens of a camera.

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Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that investigates this idiom: exploring the subject of the “found object” as pure visual form, detached from its history or utility, or conversely, as a catalyst for examining broader themes such as subjectivity and socialization, memory and loss, or love and death. Juried by: Jonathan Pavlica