Heywood & Condie
Isle of Everywhere, 2022
Copy of Persian carpet, rocks, gold leaf, slice of gear box oil coolant system, selection of cactus and succulents
240 x 120 cm
94 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.
94 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.
Unique
Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson. Courtesy of the artist, Canary Wharf and Brooke Benington
Further images
This new ‘micro landscape’ draws upon one of the earliest garden forms, the Paradise Garden; a sacred environment often symbolised in Persian rug design. In our increasingly denatured age which...
This new ‘micro landscape’ draws upon one of the earliest garden forms, the Paradise Garden; a sacred environment often symbolised in Persian rug design. In our increasingly denatured age which is struggling to find a balance with the ‘more than human world’, The Isle of Everywhere re-imagines this ancient edenic vision as an environment where the highly artificial is fused with the living to present a new garden hybrid. In Heywood and Condie’s latest horticultural installation, living nature, high tech, and commodity fetishism collide to realise a contemporary hybrid paradise - a metaphor for our globally insecure attitude to the natural world in a garden of unearthly delights.
Exhibitions
State of Play: Canary Wharf, curated by Brooke Benington, London (2022)