Megan Plunkett

Megan Plunkett (b. 1985 in Pasadena, CA, US) lives and works in Los Angeles, US. The image-based practice of Megan Plunkett is an investigation of material conditions and visual economies of reality in photography. Working with the physical space of an exhibition, she utilises movement, seriality and other types of disambiguation to cultivate a sense of estrangement and distance within familiar and mundane images, often harvested online. Her installations are set up to create moments where the material conditions of an image are made clear, and then disrupted. As such, Plunkett’s work is constantly pushing back against a false sense of totality or wholeness in favour of a photographic activity that expands outwards, where images are invariably bound up and imbricated with each other and their archive. ...

Sweetwater is a contemporary art gallery based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2018. The gallery works with a wide range of artists based both in Germany and abroad, with a focus on conceptual practices across media. In addition to a regular exhibition program in the gallery, Sweetwater also frequently participates in offsite projects and art fairs. The gallery currently represents ten artists. Sweetwater is a member of the International Galleries Alliance.