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Ornateness and decadence is given the silent treatment, made square, hard-edge and if-not-quite cruel at least ordered to austerity, its skin off. They become Clue boards, picturing images as signs to feel in need of decoding, the compositional feng-shui that makes objects mysterious, play along if you like.
See too: Matthew Brannon at Casey Kaplan, Mathew Cerletty at Office Baroque, Lucy McKenzie at Daniel Buchholz