This art is rubbish: why artists meticulously recreate our trash – so well they even confuse cleaners

Resin fruit peel, bronze bin bags and marble loo rolls are among the items of detritus being immortalised by artists – and fetching a high priceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn the second floor of Hany Armanious’s exhibition at Buxton Contemporary in Melbourne, a curl of tangerine peel lies on a shelf, its yellowing, pithy insides facing upwards. It looks as though it should be cleaned up, but it won’t be. The rind is not rubbish discarded by a careless visitor: it