MICHELLE BUI​ 

Esker Foundation
January 22 – June 26

Michelle Bui’s photographs reflect the processes of accumulation, presentation, and eventual decay that mark our relationships to seemingly mundane items. Sensual and sensorial, her images point to the negotiation between our understanding of ourselves and the objects that we accumulate. In the same breath, they cause us to question our appetite for these objects, this excessive consumption, in the first place.

A series of larger-than-life photographic images meet at the intersection between still life and commercial photography. Bui intuitively arranges objects and ephemera, photographing them against acidly colourful backdrops: sprigs of baby’s breath are arranged sculpturally with inflated latex gloves atop a blue shag carpet; a bouquet of wilting anemones is hand-tied with oversized maroon plastic in front of orange vinyl. 

For information on opening hours and covid requirements, please see the venue’s website – eskerfoundation.com

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible

This exhibition is child friendly

Esker Foundation 4th floor, 1011 9th Ave SE Calgary T2G 0H7