With greater experience of becoming absorbed by a material world, we are more estranged from nature than ever. We have fleeting memories of landscapes, rivers, and clouds. With atmospheric gravity, Betbeze engages this alienation, takes it to task, giving us a new way to enter. 

Venus, is a collection of works that engages directly with natural processes to evoke the garden, a place that has been central to Betbeze’s work over the years. The works are built with performative gestures and unusual materials. You can imagine the artist wrestling with these furry carpets: burning, cutting, sewing, gouging, dyeing, endlessly repurposing. The distortion of the fur, the blemishes and holes, conjure our most visceral senses. Betbeze’s works unfurl beyond human proportion to provide the enveloping experience of a garden. Saturated colors feel synthetic and raw; color is time and renewal, something wet spilling out of deep space.  Betbeze’s version of nature is deeply tactile. Each work is a mirror that reflects and echoes, confronting unfiltered desire.