Isabelle Menin | Uncanny and Sublime
Isabelle Menin | Uncanny and Sublime
May 7 - June 1, 2026
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto | Main Gallery
In Uncanny and Sublime, on display at Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin this May, Isabelle Menin's trademark expressive forms coalesce into layered transparencies and riotous arrangements. The resulting images are imbued simultaneously with a Baroque lushness and sophisticated contemporary edge. Within that context, Menin aims to create work which expresses basic human emotions, reflecting on her perceptions of life, but at the same time also vibrant and rich.
Uncanny and Sublime is part of CONTACT Photography Festival's 30th anniversary programming.
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Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin (b. 1961, Brussels) refers to her photographs as ‘disordered landscapes’: utilizing layers of original photographs, Menin juxtaposes her floral subject matter with her skillful use of digital manipulation to create vignettes imbued with playful artifice.
Informed by her background as a painter and illustrator, the painterly nature and graphic sensibility of Menin’s approach reinterprets her own photographic imagery of flowers as source material. Digitally abstracted and reoriented, the petals and stems abundant in Menin’s compositions become disembodied gestures. Through Menin’s process, these expressive forms coalesce into layered transparencies and riotous arrangements, imbued simultaneously with a Baroque lushness and sophisticated contemporary edge.
Menin is a graduate of the Graphic Research School (ERG) in Brussels and has exhibited internationally in numerous art fairs and museums, Menin's works can be found in many private and corporate collections.