30. August 2019 - 13. Oktober 2019
empty garden:
The video installation is a reminiscent of the plants that are weeded in Monets garden to make room for the selected flowers of the painter’s garden paradise.In the video installation “empty garden“, the room is dotted with stems and plant remains, which are attached to the floor. The plant fragments are amplified by a video projection, the shadows of the ‘weeds’ thereby overlap with the video images and form an artificial landscape on the surrounding walls. By slightly moving in the wind the shade garden is reminiscent of the plucked ‘weeds’ and cleared plants, which must yield to our vegetable gardens, fields, plantations and parks – a landscape created by the industrial exploitation of nature. The video installation reflects on the intricate relationship between humans and nature, it points towards what is filtered out from the flora, what gains exaggerated attention in the world of plants, what is desirable and what is classified as undesirable.
the pond:
Mirror plates are in the shape of Monet's water lily pond on the ground. The contour of the lake gives it its own direction of view and defines the space of the lower parterre in a new way. The visitor surrounds, embraces, sees the lake of mirror plates, becomes an explorer in a previously empty room.
The two-part installation shows a flared fragility. On the one hand apparent idyll, on the other tilting moment and the collapse of the harmony. The "shadow garden" is dystopia and at the same time: real possibility. Staged downfall, the here and now is noticeable, unpleasant in his endzeitgefühl. The question of dissolution is posed, the disappearance of the man-made systems, which, since they were transferred to nature and include the disappearance of all natural.
