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Yossi Milo is pleased to share that Meghann Riepenhoff is featured in The Guardian's article "Pedal to the metal! The best of Arles 2026 – in pictures." The feature highlights the artist’s Adaptive Radiation #1” from her solo exhibition, Upwelling, which is currently on view at the Rencontres d'Arles, France, through October 4. Upwelling brings together a suite of large-scale cyanotypes, exhibited in the Cloître Saint-Trophime, a twelfth-century cloister in the heart of Arles.
My earliest memories are from the shore, where water and land met and moved each other. The sea seemed beautiful and dangerous, vast, and yet intimately connected to my very being. Before I knew I was made of water, water seemed to know me.
This exhibition stems from my fascination with the nature of our relationships to the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence. I work collaboratively with the environment, making large-scale, cameraless cyanotypes through direct contact with the landscape. The elements that I employ in the process—rain, waves, ice, topographies, wind, and sediment—leave physical inscriptions through direct contact with photographic materials. Photochemically, the pieces are never wholly processed; they will continue to slowly respond to the changing environments that they encounter over time. Each cyanotype is like a fingerprint, recording the specific nature of environments impacted by human interventions. - Meghann Riepenhoff
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