Opening Reception: Tell Us of the World/Tell the World of Us by Stephanie Dowda DeMer

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday | March 14 | 6-9pm

March 14–April 18, 2026

Whitespace presents Tell Us of the World/Tell the World of Us by Stephanie Dowda DeMer (@thestephaniedemer)

Stephanie Dowda DeMer’s exhibitions titled Tell Us of the World/Tell the World of Us span two locations concurrently. Opening at WhiteSpace Gallery Shedspace on March 14th and @emory_visualarts gallery on March 19th, 2026.

Dowda DeMer’s simultaneous installations examine the eroding connections between humans and nature and the irrevocable aspects of this loss. Through a novel cameraless technique, Dowda DeMer is documenting plant fluorescence to reveal the otherwise invisible luminous bodies of plants directly onto silver-halide emulsions. Further photographic inquiry into ecological field studies makes visible ongoing research to understand our world. The sculptural cameras are creating durational in-gallery and garden chlorophyll prints that evoke a sense of reciprocity and conversation with light. Central to this project is the interdisciplinary connection with photo-scientific inquiry; the emergence of photography relied equally on communication within scientific communities and on experimentation in the metaphysical, to explore the permanence of the world and the language of the lens. In the midst of fallow curiosity, reigniting this relationship confirms our nature as guided by light.

At @emoryuniversity, the installation Tell Us of the World creates a space of art as ecological research. The gallery becomes a lab for examining Dowda DeMer’s unique cameraless process for visualizing plant fluorescence and understanding the interdependent relationship we share with plants. Dowda DeMer’s practice extends into ecology, physics, and Emory’s Herbarium, with each investigative lens represented and intermixed with the epistemology of art. At @whitespace814 Shedspace, the installation imagines a future in which plants are the only beings that retain a memory of humans, and light is the medium for their memories. Entering Shedspace, we are bathed in light, like plants, and encounter a chance to see time splintered from human influence.