Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky is best known for her idiosyncratic, intimate portraits of couples and painterly still-lifes depicting remnants of meals, overtly referencing Dutch and Flemish baroque genre paintings. In her new body of work, To Say It Isn't So, Letinsky arranges tabletop tableaux of everyday detritus in her studio — a purported departure from previous domestic concerns that drains the images of narrative context. Stark white-on-white meditations depict cloth and paper surfaces with subtle, affecting bursts of color, such as the robin's-egg blue of a Styrofoam container and the spring green of an incongruous vegetable in Untitled #14 . Yet Letinsky's signature light-drenched compositions are treated so tenderly that you're compelled to read a fleeting — albeit peculiar — trash-as-treasure symbolism into her chosen objects.

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