Festival | 2010 Edition
Jardin de la connaissance
By introducing the book as a material in the garden, Jardin de la Connaissance offers an evocative cultural frame to examine transformational processes inherent in nature. Invoking the mythic relation between knowledge and nature, integral to the concept of ‘paradise’, we invite the emotional involvement of the visitor by exposing these fragile and supposedly timeless cultural artefacts to the processes of decomposition. Walls, benches and floors form a series of rooms at once framing and dissolving into their environment. The withering and weathering books are organized between structural coloured plates—bookmarks—, while their deterioration is further stimulated and accentuated by varieties of mushrooms that are cultivated on selected editions. The garden becomes a sensual reading room; a library; an information platform; an invitation to a provocatively foreign realm of knowledge.
Architect: Thilo Folkerts - Rodney Latourelle
Years of exhibition: 2010
