"Between 2020 and 2025, Aronson worked with groups of young men to construct scenes of male tenderness, vulnerability, and play in the outdoors. For a generation raised on screens, the work creates a counter-narrative to the epidemic of isolation and toxic masculinity currently shaping their lives. The series is set in forests, springs, and swamps with a cast of youth from cities much like the one in which he grew up, without access to these kind of open spaces:"
"Drawing from the language of tableaux painting, Southern photographic archives, and coming-of-age cinema, Florida Boys asks what tenderness might mean in a world that mistakes hardness for strength. Presented as an outdoor installation in the gallery garden, intimate and large-scale pigment prints, and an assemblage installation, the series looks for softness within a culture that often equates masculinity with dominance, finding brief, fragile spaces where another kind of boyhood might exist."
Between 2020 and 2025 staged photos were made across backroads of Florida collaborating with groups of young men to construct scenes of male tenderness, vulnerability, and play outdoors. The work creates a counter-narrative to isolation and toxic masculinity affecting a generation raised on screens. Scenes are set in forests, springs, and swamps featuring youth from cities lacking access to open spaces. The series draws from tableaux painting, Southern photographic archives, and coming-of-age cinema to question equating hardness with strength. Presentation includes an outdoor gallery installation, intimate and large-scale pigment prints, and an assemblage installation. Florida Boys is on view at Baker-Hall, Miami until November 22nd.
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