“Bobbie Burgers is willing the centre not to hold. Erupted florals, chancing abstraction, swim into view. The myriad and sometimes chaotic feeling of their breakouts shout against their putrefaction, a lifecycle sped up and exploded.””

— Sky Goodden

“With a focus on the process of decay, and its potential for transformation and metamorphosis, Burgers positions her attention on the slippages of becoming. This has a formal bearing, too. Earlier in her practice, Burgers realized that, in painting florals, she could steal her subjects away from their “source” – that is, the vase, the foreground, or the horizon line. Freed from this requirement of “where things come from” – and the implication of where they’re limited to stay – she could push the temporal and spatial elements of still-life painting to its breaking point.”

— Sky Goodden