We All Like Flowers - Curator’s Statement

Why flowers?

What can be left in flowers, withering away in gilt frames, beloved by sunday painters and mouldering away in museum collections everywhere? If we could pick one image that is drained of critical power and social effect, it would be the still life with flowers. Flowers in a vase are synonymous with kitsch.

How is it then, at this moment in history, that any artist could start with the flower?
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