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Curator: Taisiya Kamyshan
Artists: Alexandra Azovtseva, Katerina Veselovskaya, Maryana Karpovich, Katia Kesic, Evgenia Nozhkina, Ekaterina Serikova.
In “The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise ”, the author Olivia Laing poeticizes the restoration of a walled garden in Suffolk. She writes of gardening as an artistic act — a merger of the personal and communal, spiritual and material. The walled garden becomes a basis for contemplation about where a person belongs in nature and society. Laing explores socio-political contexts to answer the question of what a garden is today.
In the dialogue between history and modernity, the idea of a garden as a reflection of the female emerges. A garden becomes a metaphor of physicality, a place where all living things co-exist.
We wanted to create an exhibition that symbolized a utopic garden. A place to be alone in. To look, to ponder. To observe and transform. Our exhibit invites the viewer to think about the necessity of preserving utopic spaces inside ourselves and the possibility of a heaven for everyone, as a cultivated garden — a place where we find ourselves through creation.
