Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

The garden has long been a space where nature, culture, and memory converge. From the Hortus Conclusus of the Middle Ages—symbols of purity and protection—to the palatial gardens of the Renaissance and Baroque, it has served as a metaphor for order, power, and human control over nature. It has also been conceived as an esoteric and mystical space, where the visible and invisible intertwine, inviting contemplation and encounters with the transcendent.

During the Romantic and Impressionist periods, the garden became a refuge for emotion and a space for sensory contemplation, exploring light, color, and domestic intimacy. In the 20th century, movements such as Surrealism and Land Art expanded the garden into realms of the dreamlike, the conceptual, and the ecological, turning it into a laboratory for artistic experimentation.

In contemporary art, the garden continues to be a site of reflection and action: a political, communal, and ecological space where the relationship between humans and nonhumans is questioned, and where memory, care, and sustainability are cultivated.

Thus, the garden remains a motif that weaves together history, intimate experience, mysticism, and the future, inviting viewers to form profound relationships that question domesticated spaces, nature as a tool of power, and plants as channels connecting material and transcendent worlds. This project encourages a dialogue around the multiple possible ways of inhabiting such spaces, exploring how the natural, the symbolic, and the social intertwine in our experience of the world.