Shifting Outlook
Maker
Beaubien, Aimée
American, b. 1966
Date2015
MediumSculpture; Chromogenic development print
Dimensionsoverall: 40 in x 14 in x 14 in
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2016:62
About the ArtistChicago-based artist Aimée Beaubien constructs optically perplexing arrangements from fragments of her own photographs. Cutting and reconstructing her images, she hybridizes media, inventing forms that combine sculpture and collage in a matrix of shifting planes and disorienting relations of scale. Vastly different photographic experiences—of nature, the arts, and the urban environment—are interwoven in each assemblage, collapsing the specificities of their making into one singular object. Through this technique, Beaubien tests the flexibility of photographic representation, using the documentary capacity of the medium only to cite colors, patterns, and spaces. Obscuring their sources, Beaubien’s cut-outs overlap in tangled shapes both on and off the wall, in their myriad intersections. Beaubien is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
