Aimee Koran is a visual artist working across mediums, using materials and forms drawn from domestic, industrial, and institutional contexts to interrogate how value is assigned and withheld. Motherhood enters the work not as narrative, but as a framework through which systems of labor, dependency, and endurance become legible. It is a site where production and care collapse into one another—where emotional labor is continuous, embodied, and structurally necessary, yet excluded from economic recognition.
Her practice examines invisible labor—emotional, physical, and psychological work that sustains families, institutions, and economies while remaining largely unrecognized and uncompensated. Aimee's works question how care, maintenance, and repetition function as political structures, shaping bodies, identities, and social systems even as they are dismissed as private, naturalized, or inevitable.
"My practice highlights both the tension and the tenderness that materializes between mother and child through archiving the abstraction and sentimentality of the everyday. Familiarly mundane moments of daily routines, baby clothes that have long been outgrown, and abandoned stuffed animals become stand-ins for the accumulation of time and labor spent over years of care-taking."
"Lived experience informs my practice not as autobiography, but as evidence. Bodies absorb responsibility, stress, and expectation over time; this accumulation becomes invisible infrastructure. The work considers how maternal and feminized labor is extracted and normalized, forming the quiet scaffolding of social life while remaining culturally and economically devalued."
