Danielle Fretwell: Terms of Consumption presents still life paintings that split their compositions between precisely rendered tableaux — fruits, desserts, antique tableware — and abstract veils that keep portions of the scene out of view. Evoking Dutch Golden Age banquet painting while embedding trompe l'oeil effects and monoprinting techniques, the works pose questions about truth and deception against an increasingly artificial visual culture. Each painting begins with a staged and photographed tableau that is then reinvented in paint as a composite that never existed in reality — immaculate and seductive, yet always partially obscured.
