David Daigle: The Death of Beauty

Track 16 Gallery presents The Death of Beauty, David Daigle’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Working across photography and sculpture, Daigle explores the intersections of desire, identity, and consumer culture by physically transforming found commercial imagery. Magazine pages, bus shelter advertisements, and wallpaper murals are drilled, perforated, and altered, turning seductive technical images into damaged yet revealing surfaces. Through this process, the artist challenges the authority and allure of images designed to manufacture desire.

Daigle’s interventions function as both destruction and excavation, creating constellations of openings that evoke pixels, screens, wounds, and voyeuristic apertures. The exhibition asks viewers to look through and beyond the image, questioning whether media can become so untruthful that it begins to consume both itself and the viewer. The Death of Beauty opens with a reception on Saturday, July 18, from 6:00PM to 9:00PM, and is on view through September 5, 2026.