Installations
SONORITY
03.30.2026-04.03.2026
PRATT PHOTOGRAPHY
Sonority is an expansion upon the concept of noise. Noise is commonly regarded plainly as a distressing sound. So much can be indicated as a form of noise. Author Marie Thompson writes, “Noise has been many different things. It has been a negative judgement of sound and a type of sound. It has been empirical and abstract. It has been a cause of pain and a cure for pain. Noise has been a product of nature and culture, of self and other, of human, animal and machine.” The expressive power of noise comes from its inability to be strictly identified. Noise is not confined to the field of sound, but rather extends to everything that experiences affect. Within my photographs, I explore noise in the visual form, and how this informs the self through its affections.
There is an inherent idea of becoming in noise, an idea that is not fully comprehensible and commonly rejected. It is often reasoned that noise is a limitation, but how can something be a limitation if it’s omnipresent and an aspect of becoming? Acceptance of noise is a rejection of cultural purity, an embrace of the evocative. Noise has an erratic way of presenting itself through natural sounds and hiccups. If you sit alone with yourself and take a brief moment to observe your surroundings, you’ll begin to notice the once hazy noise. It’s in house creaks, grain, the texture of grass when beneath you. These banalities act as a subtle reminder of how noise acts as a constant. We are undergoing noise and its perpetual defiance of death.
Sonority is a body of work that includes photography, sound installation, and written text. A copy of the text can be accseed through permission by the artist.
WHEN IM GONE IT’LL BE ONLINE
10.06.2026-10.17.2026
PRATT PHOTOGRAPHY
When I'm Gone It'll Be Online is an multimodal exhibition curated by Zoey Knipstein. This exhibition showcases the work of multiple artists across multiple mediums, reflecting their own views of the connection between the self and the internet. The work may include but is not limited to: photography, painting, sculpture, and videography. This exhibition would thrive in a space that can provide variable lighting, and the back room of the gallery would be the perfect place. This exhibit prioritizes maximalism, to parallel the ever expanding realm of the internet, and would utilize the given space to express this concept by taking up as much of the wall as possible.
It's undeniable that we have lived through a myriad of messy transitional periods in technology. No matter how much one may reject it, you must adhere to it in some way throughout your everyday life in order to survive and assimilate. Is this a lifestyle of quality or condition? The internet is like lead, and it's like cigarettes. It's powerful and distinguishable, and it’s wedged itself into our daily practices, hoping we won't leave it behind. It’s unique in appearance, but similar in authority. The internet has become ingrained in our insatiable search for being, and immortalized every moment of our lives in flashing images, one after the other. Can you really die if your whole life remains online?
Having reached a stage of crazed nuance, we are now all a little bit of everything. I live in every timezone. When I seek contact through a glass box, I can feel your eyes reading the screen, and it's almost like we're together again. I could type for hours, it almost feels like my loved one through digital words; like i'm holding someone. Constantly satiated, it's the extreme power in information, there is such a need to gain and spread information.This life is lived through the basis of information.
In our current day, it is common to view a large handful of content in a very short period of time and find yourself unable to recollect what you saw. This has taken such a toll on our dopamine receptors and wrecked our attention span overall. This formula pushes the world on, and the world is being chained to the rack and assembled like binary code. We take it head on, full throttle, never looking back.
I fear the absence of tangibility. Our ability to exist is dependent on a collection of pixels. Our bodies exist in a digital space, but as much as we are computerized, we still remain as flesh. What would someone become today if their life didn’t reside online? Is there a lack of agency? No definition?
Do your eyes feel just as heavy as mine? Do you ever snap out of it for a second, and don’t direct your eyes towards something and just blankly stare out, unable to collect yourself; collect yourself for what?
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Don’t waste your time, surely something better will be on its way tomorrow. There's always going to be something better.
Written by Zoey Knipstein
IN THOSE WHO TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
2020-2025
These photos showcase the DIY music scene in New York and Chicago, encapsulating a singular moment in time, and preserving fleeting moments within the community. I have been an active member of these scenes since I was seventeen, and it has truly become one of the most important things in my life. There is a special energy that is shared in those spaces. Its effect is what I find keeps bringing me back show after show, it's a world that can leave a mark on someone.