Night Garden was made during Iceland's midnight season. It is a key piece within the Contact series and featured in Aimée Beaubien's artist book With Inger. At the core of this collection of photographs is a chance encounter with a three-ring binder of 35mm black and white contact sheets dating from the early 1970’s. Beaubien combines her own photographs with those of a stranger. Guided by the photographs of Inger Helene Boasson, Beaubien builds bridges between past and future via the visual records of two women, unknown to one another. Through an unfolding visual expedition of the geographic, architectural, and social landscape of Iceland, Contact and With Inger embodies an incomplete archive while conjuring a woman whose works were left to the historical periphery.

Aimée Beaubien reorganizes photographic experience while exploring networks of meaning and association between the real and the ideal in immersive installations, collages and artists books. Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions including SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Newport Art Museum, RI; Houston Center for Photography, TX; UCR Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Gallery UNO Projektraum, Berlin, Germany; Virus Art Gallery, Rome, Italy. Aimée Beaubien is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL where she has taught since 1997.

500 Piece

18X24 inches assembled

Edition of 100

9.5X6.75 inch Puzzle Box