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AU SERVICE

temporary garden installation

Festival international des jardins Hortillionnages

Amiens, FR | 2024

The Hortillonnages in Amiens are a unique landscape that brings together the opportunities and risks of human impact on nature in one place as is rarely the case.

The Au Service installation is dedicated to the often hidden and almost invisible work of landscape maintenance. It aims to value the knowledge of gardeners and farmers and to make some of it accessible to the public. Like the Hortillonnages themselves, it aims to create a link between the natural and the cultural landscape, and a living monument to the human and non-human caretakers!

The aspect of “taking care” is becoming more and more part of the architectural discourse and is mainly focused on infrastructural spaces. Our aim here is to create a garden that is a tribute to the caretakers of this unique cultural landscape. A garden that incorporates the pragmatic elements, the background of gardening, and makes them visible to the public in a quiet way, that grows and flourishes over time, and that will need to be maintained in the future.

Sculpturally arranged jute bags form the structure of the garden. They are usually filled with sand or substrate and serve to secure the land. They can therefore be associated with floods, natural disasters and rising sea levels in general. However, they also refer to the human management of natural resources and can be read, for example, as a compost heap, a gravel pit or a wood pile as found in ab work yard.

The piles are complemented by selective planting in the filled bags.

The installation questions the fast solutions and shows how much slow, hard work goes into cultivating the land. Visitors are invited to enter into a dialogue with the gardeners and the plants and experience the garden as a constantly changing state that needs to be taken care of.

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meant to be outside

limestone (Untersberger marble), metal rods (210x60x30cm)

International Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg

Untersberg, AT | 2024

meant to be outside shows three vertically stacked stones that form a narrow, fragile sculpture. Starting from a bone-like base, the figure pushes itself upwards with a twist and then turns towards the sky in a hopeful, opening gesture. The sculpture, which weighs almost 300kg, is freestanding and is only balanced at a single point.