JANET LAURENCE opens a solo exhibition at the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan today. In Entangled Garden for Plant Memory, Laurence uses the 'garden' to represent the interconnectedness of living creatures and to visualise the memory of plants, which differs from, and surpasses, the human experience.
Laurence and the Yu-Hsiu Museum have collaborated with the National Taiwan University's museums of zoology, geo-specimens & the herbarium, as well as the Taiwanese Council for Agriculture & the Endemic Species Research Institute. Using these collections of natural specimens, Janet's work foregrounds the beauty of Taiwan's forest & mountain ecology whilst also deconstructing their systems of classification in order to reinterpret the history and meaning of the collections.
The exhibition continues until 26 July.
