December 11, 2024 - June 22, 2025

Philadelphia artist Aimee Koran creates work about memory, love, and transitions of time. Working across the mediums of sculpture, photography, and mixed-media installation, she examines how the issues and objects closely associated with motherhood inform the social-political structure of the care economy. Koran’s installation at PHL Airport includes  three distinct series within her practice that pose seeming contradictions. 

From the Tested series, the wallpaper that lines the exhibition case is composed of thousands of pregnancy test strips to suggest weaving or embroidery. It combines tools of science, typically a male-dominated field, with the process of textiles which is commonly regarded as “women’s work”. The Chrome Series and Insiders examine objects of play. Stereotypically gendered toys, such as dollhouses and dump trucks, have been chrome-plated and allude to the parental tradition of bronzing baby shoes to preserve memories of a child’s early years. With Insiders, Koran deconstructs her children’s once-beloved companions that have been abandoned in place of newer toys. By inverting the structure of these stuffed animals, the artist adds vulnerability and singularity to these mass-produced objects. Koran’s formal manipulation of scale, color, and material is aimed at questioning how  memories are easily shifted, as refuse now performs as a relic.

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