Potentially Garden (2024)
The Sculpture Garden, Nýlendugata 17, Reykjavík.
Garden walls form a circle around a cell, and demarcate it like under a microscope. The organs are turned to stone and enlarged so they're better observed. Between them lie red spheres, full of seeds, which guests can pick up and throw elsewhere. It’s forbidden to keep track of the sphere after it has been let go. It could sprout and grow into decoration or fodder, live a perennial life, or sink and merge with the soil.
In the exhibition, Potentially Garden, the graphic representation of the plant cell becomes a place to wonder about the cultural role of plants and our expectations of vegetation in the current climate. Seedbombs will be offered and people are encouraged to disperse randomly in the city landscape.
The exhibition period ran from the 11th of May - 30th of June resulting in many additional flowers in unforseen places in the Reykjavík city landscape.
Down below is an interview with the artist about Potentially Garden on the National Radio RÚV, from 00:00 - 00:24 minutes.
