25.4 x 20.3 cm
Duran Contemporain is pleased to present Technicolor Afterimages, a solo exhibition by Megan Wade-Darragh, on view from May 14 to June 6. The opening reception will take place on May 14 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the presence of the artist.
In Technicolor Afterimages, Wade-Darragh examines the image as a site of instability, erosion, and continual transformation. Drawing from fragmented film stills and digitally mediated imagery, the artist isolates moments already altered by transmission across screens, glare, compression, and material degradation. Rather than preserving representation, her paintings attend to the residual traces left behind by the mechanisms of mediation themselves. The depicted image becomes secondary to the conditions of its deterioration, allowing abstraction to emerge through accumulation, interruption, and loss.
The exhibition brings together a series of intimate paintings executed in acrylic and oil on wood panel. Suspended between appearance and disappearance, the works evoke the unstable mechanics of recollection through luminous stains, blurred forms, and fractured surfaces. Influenced by Roland Barthes' concept of the "filmic" and theories of spectrality, Wade-Darragh's practice approaches memory not as a fixed archive, but as a mutable process shaped by repetition, decay, and reconstruction. The paintings exist within a temporal threshold where past and present continuously permeate one another, transforming the image into a spectral afterimage rather than a stable document.
Born in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal, where she lives and works, Megan Wade-Darragh holds a BFA with Distinction (2020) and an MFA with Great Distinction (2026) from Concordia University. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Duran Contemporain and in group exhibitions in Montréal and Lisbon. Her practice has recently been featured in The Pit and Suboart Magazine.
