Michelle Bui: Naked Excess

Montreal-based Michelle Bui has created a series of large-scale photographs whose high-keyed colours and extreme detail call up both historical still-life paintings and contemporary commercial photography. The content of these images, however, is unexpected, with wilting flowers, pig entrails, stone fruit, and inflated latex gloves juxtaposed and subjected to processes of material transformation. The result is an inquiry into our sensory relationship to objects – and our participation in the realm of overconsumption.