Heliumcowboy artspace is delighted to present 'The Best Bogus Botanical Garden', exhibiting work by Hamburg and international artists Giovanni Castell, Lisa Creagh, Sakir Gökçebag, Janaina Mello Landini, Liz Orton, Jens Rausch, Maren Simon, Katie Spragg, and Sadie Weis.
'The Best Bogus Botanical Garden' is curated by Rosie Jenkins, Eline Verstegen, and Chiara Villa, all postgraduates of the MA Curating the Contemporary organized jointly by London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Gallery.
Influenced by digitization, urbanism and ecological awareness, human ways of engaging with the natural environment have changed significantly throughout recent years. As a response to this condition, a vast number of contemporary artists have started to investigate this shifting relationship by simulating the very nature we have become disconnected from.
'The Best Bogus Botanical Garden' then aims to look at art practices that seem to recreate nature, either by manipulating organic elements in new forms, or by inventing their own materials. To further enhance the illusion of these simulacra, the exhibition takes the form of an immersive environment, literally transforming the white cube gallery space into an artificial botanical garden.
There will be a curators’ tour on Saturday 25 March 2017, 1 pm.
More info: thebestbogusbotanicalgarden.com
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Katie Spragg, 'Seal Clove Turf'
Sadie Weis, 'Sci-Copia'
Liz Orton, 'Splitters and Lumpers'
Giovanni Castell, 'In Lucem Edere'
Meet the curators! Eline Verstegen, Rosie Jenkins, Chiara Villa (MA Curating the Contemporary at The Cass & Whitechapel Gallery)
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