GARDEN

Didier Faustino
A Home Is Not a Hole, 2016
Installation of skinned eucalyptus trunks, silver birch plywood, canvas, mosquito netting, felt, and fluorescent lights
600 x 700 x 400 cm
Specially created for the exhibition La maison magique at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris in 2016
Courtesy the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels; Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; Parque Galería, Mexico DF
© Didier Fiúza Faustino, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2018

MAIO Architects
5 m Floating Columns, 2015
Five pneumatic structures inflated with helium and speakers
5 m high x 1.1 m diameter each Courtesy MAIO, Barcelona
© MAIO Architects

Leong Leong
Float Tank 01, 2018
Industrial stainless-steel tank with diverse materials, water, and salt from the Salt Valley of Añana
267.5 x 231.7 cm (base); 231.7 cm (top diameter), 204.7 cm (top height), 70.9 cm (low height)
Courtesy Leong Leong, New York
© Leong Leong

An active landscape of works by key artists and architects of our time, the Garden presents full-scale works in place of the usual drawings, models, and documentation that are customary in architecture shows. While architects manifest their involvement in debates that transcend edification, works by contemporary artists testify for the dissemination of architectural concerns beyond the realm of standardized, identifiable built space.

Animation, performance, post-humanism, artificial intelligence, and the search for the Deep Self, are key elements in this choral assemblage. Haunted by the predominant feelings of historical urgency and disorientation that characterize our existence in the present era, the works featured in this space also offer means of overcoming the pressures of our time.