About

Travis Somerville takes on social injustice and the endemic political and educational structures in this country that have perpetuated oppression and racism for hundreds of years . Having grown up in the South, Somerville is keenly aware of the contradictions and hypocrisies inherent in that millieu, and of the racism so apparent and yet subsumed by Southern niceties and gentility.

Keris Salmon’s cyanotypes serve in a way as silent witness, in direct and quiet contrast to the Somerville works. The conversation that is demanded/forced by dint of these works being in the same room is a marvelous opportunity to examine, as Salmon so eloquently put it in the title, The Architecture of Slavery, with the resulting effects on our current society as examined by the Somerville work.