The Tempest Gloaming Of Erotic Gardens, 2023, 2025
Presentation at Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2023) and Het Textielmuseum (2025) , The Netherlands

Text by Adelheid Smit:
For her graduation project, Aimée Phillips drew inspiration from the feminist, futuristic novel by author Kathy Acker, ‘Pussy, King of the Pirates’. This book is a grrrl* version of Robert Louis Ste- venson’s classic ‘Treasure Island’. The various parts of the installation are creatures with names such as Corse-Finger tongue, Mothy Cunnilin- gus, Fingering Flowers, Pyrophile Flower Stacks and Tree (S)awe. The installation forms a queer* orgy of human, animal and plant like sexual or- gans.