Hanging "Gardens" of Babylon
spatial installation ✦ 2022
The tension between a mythologically and technologically virtual space; a digitally simulated landscape displayed between fragments simultaneously both organic and artificial. A post-internet and yet primordial environment. Searching for the necessary characteristics a pictorial representation of a space, either architectural or natural, needs (or desires) in order to contain a virtual trait.
The biblical story of the construction of the Tower of Babel is proof that of the perpetual human desire for the immaterial. As the original biblical story goes, it represented the means of reaching Heaven, encountering God, thus materializing the immaterial and vice versa. New methods and strategies have since been devised.
The Hanging Gardens, said to rise beside the Tower, are regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Yet centuries of conflicting depictions offer no physical proof, transforming the Tower and its gardens into an ephemeral, virtual space: an enduring illusion.
view of the installation at the Klub Kocka Gallery, Split, Croatia
photos by Glorija Lizde
