Out of Season

Statement:

In  "Out of Season", Shirin Sabahi presents a series of site-specific interventions and sculptures that relate to the motif of a garden.

The garden is taken on as a place of contradiction – as a borderland between between rationality and speculation, between utopia and dystopia.

Gardens have always been characterized by control and order, but at the same time have always been characterized by deviation and wayward forces. Sabahi’s garden evokes a time out of joint, in which plants and species live on only as effigies, and in that the supposed place of refuge is countered by its transience, artificiality, and commodification.