Time and place define this issue. Inside, artists, architects and photographers examine how we inhabit and interpret the world around us. At the core of their work is a fascination with the now: how it is shaped by history, yet continuously reimagined through creativity. Aesthetica’s June/July edition invites you to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing, Here’s a preview of what you’ll discover:
Delicate Vignettes | Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider narratives, united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the wider world.
Analogue Landscape | Svetlana Talanova makes works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns recur across humans and plants.
Into the Wetlands | Frank Relle travels along Louisiana’s waterways, recording otherworldly images of cypresses by using a lighting system rigged to his flatboat.
Graphic Playtime | Photomontages by Daniel Rose collide leaves and branches with geometric shapes, offering a fresh take on the Japanese art form of ikebana.
Buildings Redefined | Renowned architect Kengo Kuma reflects upon a decade of structures, dedicated to renewing the bonds between nature, people and places.
Sculpted Geography | Linda Burris Webster draws attention to various geopolitical concerns, tearing, twisting, cutting, crumpling and reshaping maps into sculptures.
Cameras in the City | Street photographers, including Laurence Bouchard, offer an array of different perspectives on Tokyo, a global metropolis that is known for its blend of tradition and futurism.
Enduring Symbolism | A new exhibition as part of Rencontres d’Arles 2026 reassesses the long history of flowers in photography, from a contemporary viewpoint, with works by Jiang Zhi.
Portraits in Bloom | The boundaries between self and organic world dissolve in Tamara Dean’s portraits, as the artist navigates bright bushes and towering treetops.
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Image Credits:
1. Tamara Dean, I wrap my face in her cloak of petals and breathe deeply, (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
2. Image courtesy of Nuno Serrão.
3. Svetlana Talanova, PhotoSynthesis XXIV, (2021).
4. Svetlana Talanova, No Less Than Others V, (2022).
5. Frank Relle, Valsin. Image courtesy of the artist.
6. Daniel Rose, Blue Rising, (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
7. Daniel Rose, Fashpoint, (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
8. Page 181 (R) Hanling Museum of Art, Ningbo, China, © Songkai Liu.
9. Linda Burris Webster, Tanzania: The Tightening. From the Cartographica series.
10. Linda Burris Webster, Zimbabwe: Ordered Disorder. From the Cartographica series.
11. Laurence Bouchard, Now is Now Tokyo, teNeues 2026.
12. Jiang Zhi, Love letters, No. 11, (2023). Image courtesy PARIS-B.
13. Jiang Zhi, Love letters, No. 2, (2023). Image courtesy PARIS-B.
14. Tamara Dean, Introversion, (2021). Image courtesy of the artist.
