Featuring works by more than 20 diverse international artists, a new exhibition shows gardens to be ambivalent domains
, an ancient Persian garden. The viewer’s eye is drawn down neat furrows and along irrigation systems; gardeners can be seen assiduously tending to crops. Etymologically,and it is not hard to see why, so lush is this vista. But in the next room, a version of Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” conjures a different mood: chaos reigns as naked bodies throng in ecstasy, some half-animal, one sodomised by a bouquet. Elsewhere, the horticulture is surreally artificial.
Libby Harward, meanwhile, probes the link between gardens and colonial power. She has placed small, fragile-looking bell jars in the centre of a cavernous white room. Each contains a plant species which was once uprooted from its Australian habitat for a European botanical garden. Hidden speakers play plangent snippets of indigenous Australian languages. Doubly imprisoned in the glass jars and the walls of the gallery, the deracinated plants are presented as survivors of a struggling culture.
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