The artist Nick Doyle is a firm believer in Manifest Destiny, a theory that regards Americans as sent by God to spread democracy in the world. But creeping consumption taints this dream. Doyle takes images of consumer goods—a broken pencil, a sagging cactus, a discarded bunch of flowers—and prints them on denim. He then places the elaborate denim collages onto panels, and hangs them up or props them against a wall. The elaborate methodology applied to such banal subject matter hints at a larger theme. Doyle is California-born and New York-based, and throughout his life he has pondered the decay of America. Designed to haunt, the images in Doyle’s first Paris solo show point to a destiny dissolving. —Elena Clavarino