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Documentation from my solo show, Field of Vision, at Stride Gallery! July 11 - Sept 19 2025

Photography by Han Sungpil taken in Stride Gallery by @mantismei

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Parking Lot Snow Mounds, Snowed on Again by @mantismei

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6 months ago

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TV, Video of the sun, Green Onions by @mantismei

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Hi all :] I made this publication in relationship to my show and residency at Stride over the summer. It’s a transcribed conversation between myself and my friend Li where we talk about symbols, identity, and capitalist recuperation.

This publication is available for free!!! And can be mailed out to your address. Sign up through the form in my bio (edit: all gone!).

Thank you to @stridegallery for the support and @yolklesspress for printing!!!! by @mantismei

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9 months ago

Haunted Houses (Rubber Dove)

Paper, Curtain, Steamer by @mantismei

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10 months ago

And Then a Dove Appeared (Weather Balloon)

Paper, Cement, Metal by @mantismei

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10 months ago

Happy Birthday Candle (2024)

Bronze. Updated Documentation :] by @mantismei

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a year ago

Decoy Duck (#1) by @mantismei

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a year ago

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT! ⭐️

Field of Vision

Mantis Mei

July 11 - September 19, 2025

Opening reception July 11th from 6-9pm at Stride Gallery (220-625 11 Ave SW, T2R 0E1). We will have light snacks and refreshments!

‘Field of Vision’ consists of works and experiments that perform a dissection on visual language. How much disassembly can take place before a sign loses its representational qualities?

In Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson writes that pastiche, or the cultural impulse to imitate, works as a wrapper, the signifier “becomes affirmed as autonomous and as a kind of unity in its own right,” eclipsing the signified (103). Works in Field of Vision equips the wrapper as material to further nullify any connection the visual has to its meaning. A word becomes a shape. A symbol becomes flat. A representation of something is not greater than itself. The distance between the object and understanding is compressed so tightly together, that depth is not even contended. All that is left is the surface.

Works made in residency at Stride Gallery are dialogical with the architecture of the space. White paint, wood, and window space are referenced and used as material that both expand and collapse the extent of the gallery.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press, 1992.

Mantis Mei is three oranges in a trenchcoat.

They are a Mohkinstsis/Calgary based artist and have recently been investigating themes of phenomenology, design thinking and processes, failure, and Buddhism. Mantis is currently working towards a BFA in Sculpture. taken in Stride Gallery by @mantismei

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a year ago

Drawings from last fall by @mantismei

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a year ago

Duet: Landscape
With Birdy 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻 by @mantismei

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a year ago

Blueberry Field by @mantismei

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