30. August 2019 - 13. Oktober 2019
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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 installation the room is dotted with stems and plant remains, which are attached to the floor. The plant fragments are amplified by video projections, 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 “garden“ is reminiscent of the plucked ‘weeds’ and cleared plants, which must yield to idealized garden and 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.
In the basement, the dystopian space of the dark natural continues. 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 Spiegelsee, 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.
