© Images by Elias Asselbergh
“OF PLANTERS; AN HERBARIUM”, Published by: Birthday, Felony and Fuss
© Image by Michael Smits
Name: Substruct
Type: Planter
Involvement: Collaboration with Orson Oxo Van Beek
Material: 4 mm Galvanized Steel
Date: 2023
Exhibited at: COUR (Antwerp)
Group exhibition includes work of
Charlotte Bombel and Moreno Schweikle, Shun Yoon, Yen Proesmans, Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, Hans Wuyts, Malte van der Meyden, Fritz Adamski, Hannah Kuhlmann and Delphine Lejeune, Grażyna Mielech, Giseok Kim.
Planters is a garden show. The point of departure of the exhibition is the planter, or flowerpot – the decorative container in which plants are kept or grown.
Planters occupy a special, if overlooked, place in our urban and domestic environments. A plant container is at once functional (a means of transporting plants and seedlings from one growing environment to another), decorative (used to adorn interiors, terraces, boulevards, and parks) and even hygienic (a glorified air-freshener for those of modest means). As such, it has always been an object of artistic activity. Planters wants to explore the possibilities of this simple yet protean object, beyond binaries of form and function, art and design.