Jute Sack Vertical Garden

November 17th, 2010 | Posted by Lushe in Lushe

On Nafas Art Magazine I found an exhibition in Berlin in 2008 by Mona Hatoum that used 770 jute sacks filled with seeds to create a simple vertical garden.

Vertical Garden

The exhibition, strangely called “The Hanging Garden” is described below.

Vertical Garden

“Mona Hatoum is showing a constantly changing installational sculpture at the gallery of Berlin’s DAAD artists program. Hatoum had 770 jute sacks stacked up to head level; the resulting pile is 10 meters long and resembles the sandbag barricades used in battle as shelter from enemy gunfire”

Vertical Garden

“But in this case the sacks are filled with seeds that continue sprouting throughout the duration of the exhibition. The artist thereby seems to take up a conceptual thread from her early works, which were located in the area of performance: temporary works in public space.”

Vertical Garden

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