Artists: Bianca Bondi, Joel Dean, Cedric Fargues, Bea Fremderman, Timothy Furey, Frieder Haller, Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan, Leslie Martinelli, Anna Sagström, Pepo Salazar, Fabio Santacroce, Anna Solal
Exhibition title: The Garden
Curated by: Thomas Butler and Anna Solal
Venue: ROOM E-10 27, Paris, France
Date: February 11 – March 4, 2016
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and ROOM E-10 27, Paris
In the shadow of a nuclear station in Dungeness, England sits Derek Jarman’s meditative and arid garden. Poking out of the flint surface, its irises, plants and rusty crosses made from wrenches, is a far cry from the green monochrome of Bree Van de Kampf’s perfectly tended lawns that adorn Wisteria Lane.
ROOM E-10 27’s garden will be tended in a studio situated in the heart of old Paris. There among works by thirteen different artists one finds objects and interventions that contribute to an environment, which in their quixotic attempts at ecological symbioses, are marked in part by the creative ferocity of nature — a concept put forward by French botanist Francis Hallé. They take on and challenge its domestic dimension through concepts of acceleration and degeneration, which threaten to overcome and menace it.
Anna Sagström, Aron Kullander-Östling, Per Törnberg, Stahlhartes Gehäuse (Iron Nights of City Land), 2016
Anna Solal, Two friends, 2016
Anna Solal, Two friends, 2016
Bea Fremderman, Untitled, 2016
Bianca Bondi, Fontain fragment, 2016
Bianca Bondi, Fontain fragment, 2016
Cédric Fargues, Im so pansy you already know, 2016
Fabio Santacroce, NAPHTHALENE #2 #3 (you must swear allegiance to me), 2014
Fabio Santacroce, NAPHTHALENE #2 #3 (you must swear allegiance to me), 2014
Fabio Santacroce, NAPHTHALENE #2 #3 (you must swear allegiance to me), 2014
Frieder Haller, Untitled (toy4), 2016
Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan, We miss our friends, 2015
Joel Dean, The transformative power of symbolism in storytelling, 2016
Leslie Martinelli, (je continuerai de pousser jusqu’a l’éclat), 2016
Pepo Salazar, Untitled, 2016
Pepo Salazar, Untitled, 2016
Timothy Furey, it’s ‘Autofellatio, 2016
