Exhibition view: 

AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2018

At the center of the exhibition, Folly (2015), a collaboration with Adrian Hermanides and Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur, is based on the famous Japanese Zen garden of Ryoanji, in Kyoto. It consists of a red-and-white, striped carnival tent and a group of objects arranged on a wide rectangular bed of mugwort. Surrounding the tent are two dynastic Chinese urns standing on interlocking wooden plinths, a family of stuffed deer, a Isamu Noguchi paper floor lamp, and a mannequin dressed in a linen shaman coat adorned with a collar of moose antlers and quartz. Folly is enriched by the ambient sound work FIELD (2015) created by artist Ebe Oke.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti