Objectified

At ESMoA, The Experimentally Structured Museum of Art, we wanted to entice you to explore four powerful examples of common living spaces that came alive through human models fashioned with body paint. During this one-day installation called Objectified, fine art body painter Trina Merry posed these questions and allowed viewers to come up with answers by creating a conversation with the self. Trina Merry and her team ART ALIVE Gallery collaborated with artist Theresa Because to create a 4 part installation Our role as humans living in an urban lifestyle seems to be following the trends of our peers, our community, and the media we are fed. Is this our job? We do have choices, right? Do the living spaces that surround us own us or do we own them? The Objectified series poses these questions and allows viewers of this visual and performing art laboratory at ESMoA to come up with answers by creating a conversation within the self. What is all this stuff in my living space and why do I choose these