2023

installation with chetnuts, walnuts, helicopter seeds, ceramic tiles, aquarium, clay, toothpicks, paper and riso posters

playgarden is a continuation of the garden projects exploring weeds as a resistance to our capitalist society in three themes: play, love and time. This project focussed on autumn. It includes seeds of maple trees (Acer L.) which resemble little helicopters when flying, walnuts (Juglans L.) which are used to make boats and chestnuts (Aesculus L.) which are used to make figurines. Alongside the plant materials there is a poster describing how the player can use each plant.

This installation was specifically made to accompany an installation of the work Children’s Games by Francis Alys in WIELS during the autumn holidays of 2023.