Matter in the Hothouse, 2022
cut and woven photographs, paracord, polymer chains, miniature clothespins, filament drawings, dried lemons, plant matter, vintage garden books, grow lights on fabric cord
dimensions variable
SF Camerawork at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Aimée Beaubien: Matter in the Hothouse. The winner of SF Camerawork's 2020 Exhibition Award, Aimée Beaubien was selected from a pool of over 200 applicants. Beaubien’s dynamic installation combines cut and woven photographs of plants, plant materials, and mixed media additions hung from the ceiling in strips and waves that the viewer is invited to carefully traverse. Bold leaf shapes and twisting ribbons of photos entwine, cluster and creep. Photographed plants, interlaced vines, and woven topographies merge into fields of color and pattern and back again - expanding the ever more complicated sensations of reading a photograph and experiencing nature.
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