Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photography presents a retrospective of Anne Zahalka's portraits, which are rich in saturated color and historical reference. The Cleaner, an early work, epitomizes the artist's style: performance artist Marianne Redpath, dressed in work rags, sits at a wooden table covered in a still life of vibrantly colored fruit, with a Northern Renaissance portrait hanging on the wall behind her. While the scene could be straight out of a 17th-century Dutch painting, headphones wrapped around Redpath's neck return the viewer to the present in a witty and impressive update of the art canon.

-AG