Folks in Belgium, mark your calendars! Fine Arts Faculty Ben Thorp Brown’s project Cura’s Garden opens on May 26th at Kunsthal Gent
Cura’s Garden was created for the courtyard of a former 13th century monastery as a part of Kunsthal Gent’s “Endless Exhibition” program.
Unfolding over time through choreographed and natural processes, this installation creates an idyllic and foreboding landscape that deepens links between our senses, and earth itself.
Cura’s Garden is named after the ancient Roman goddess Cura, the personification of care; a returning figure in Ben Thorp Brown’s work about humanity’s relationship with architecture and environment. Following on Brown’s project The Arcadia Center, this work creates a new space for attention to landscape that transcends its own boundaries. Gardening itself is an act of empathy with non-living things. The garden evokes images of the sublime, metamorphosis, and regeneration and invites visitors to develop a relationship with this place over time.
Follow the link to find out more: https://kunsthal.gent/en/exhibitions/curas-garden
Congrats Ben!
