The clichés surrounding still-life photography, with its flowers, fruit and vegetables on a table, sometimes alongside skulls and dead rabbits, still draw on 17th-century Spanish painters. But the genre is evolving radically and Chloe Sells is a leader. Its original description, nature morte (dead nature), still survives but she chooses objects including ancient pagan symbols and African carved heads and creates a cinematic stage-set scenario instead of scenes in Spanish dining rooms.
The effect of Sells’s shifting life experiences between London and Botswana is responsible for her explosive colour palette and scenes reflecting her personal journeys...
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