SECOND NATURE
Second Nature explores the shifting boundary between the natural and the manufactured through photographic gardens, constructed still lifes, and curious specimens. Blending real and artificial materials, the work invites viewers to look closely and consider how beauty, perception, and imitation shape what we trust as authentic.
In seventeenth-century Dutch vanitas paintings, flowers bloom and fade, fruit ripens and rots - reminders of time, mortality, and the fragility of material excess.
Here, those traditions are interrupted. Plastic flowers do not wilt. Nature is branded, preserved, and manufactured for consumption. Contemporary memento mori emerge, reflecting a world where beauty remains, but decay has been removed.
A behind-the-scenes interview with fine art photographer Natalie Finney discussing Second Nature - an immersive photographic exhibition exploring imitation, perception, artificial beauty, and the tension between the natural and the manufactured.
Night time external installation view of the Glass Cube, at Cube 37 gallery.
Floral arrangements produced by Lupini Floral
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Projection work from Natalie Finney’s Second Nature exhibition, exploring through shifting florals, immersive moving image, and themes of beauty, imitation, memory and perception.