Scenes From The Vanity

"Annie MacDonell's series of collages, 'Scenes from the Vanity', evoke the preciousness and primness of cameos. Anonymous yet familiar female silhouettes pose in a sutured fantasy garden derived from gardening books. Her layered reuse of old posters everlastingly flatters: These simplified, svelte women and blossoming branches will never decay. Yet each piece of paper attests to time's subtle ravage with degrees of yellowing and ghostly ink bleed from the other side. Overall, reality has been thwarted and lives stilled during their most fetching moment."

Curator Astria Suparak, from her notes on the exhibition Faux Naturel, The Warehouse Gallery, 2006