Contemporary artist Michael Paul Britto works in a variety of powerful media, including sculpture and video, but his collages cut the deepest.

Addressing the state of black males in America, Britto cuts and pastes the haunting images we've seen shared across mass media and social media into new and jarring formations. In the eerie amalgamation above, Britto juxtaposes images of Michael Brown with those of Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed him. Through the layered images, a silhouette appears of two identical figures staring each other in the face, guns hidden behind their backs.

In his newest exhibition "Something in the Way of Things," Britto similarly assembled a remixed vision of American life that stands in stark contrast to the one we were promised. His vision is filled with brutality and silence, fear and ignorance. Britto incorporates glamorous images from advertisements and fashion editorials with disturbing images of KKK uniforms, guns and bodies falling through space. The ambiguity of the figures speaks to the unmanageable number of victims of violence, many of whom go unnamed and unseen.

We reached out to Britto in anticipation of his exhibition to learn more about his hopes for the show.