Danse Macabre, Michelle Msami

Michelle Msami’s Danse Macabre presents a series of paintings engaging with art historical tradition and spirituality through figurative portraiture. Using dramatic compositions shaped by light and fabric, Msami’s works personify life and death as counterparts bound in a cyclical choreography. Drawing on narrative painting as both a spiritual and secular visual language, the exhibition explores themes of mortality, duality, and transcendence.

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Michelle Msami is a Canada-based visual artist born and raised in Botswana. She attends the University of the Fraser Valley working towards a Bachelor of Fine Art with a major in Visual Arts. She has explored and experimented with painting, photography and sculpture, evolving to be a multidisciplinary artist whose main medium of expression is painting.

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