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$4,785.74
£3,572.88
€4,000
CA$6,592.70
A$7,233.45
CHF 3,810.23
MX$86,049.49
NOK 48,808.62
SEK 44,568.94
DKK 30,481.53
About the Item
The exhibition presents a series of digitally woven works that combine traditional tapestry with the logic of the digital loom. Human and more-than-human life forms quite literally weave themselves together in a constellation of motifs that appear at once familiar and strange. Worlds unfold in Holst’s works like whimsical garden scenes, where the gaze turns toward nature and the hand toward the woven craft.
From a cultural-historical perspective, the garden is a microcosm reflecting the prevailing views of nature throughout different eras. From the Garden of Eden to symmetrical Baroque gardens, Romantic landscape gardens, and modern suburban gardens, the garden mirrors humanity’s desire to domesticate and control nature: grass is cut, “weeds” removed, roses pruned. Just as the garden is an innocent place for therapeutic leisure activities, it is also an image of power, control, categorization, and boundary-making.
In contrast stand Holst’s garden scenes, where human-like beings mutate into flowers, plants sprout from everyday objects, and even the snails are in the midst of turning into blossoms. What kind of view of nature is emerging from these woven works?
The works’ wild-growing plant motifs break through the strictly geometric order that both frames and delimits the gardens, creating a contrast to the order inherent in the systematic logic of the woven craft itself. In the motifs, human and plant bodies intertwine, dissolving the boundaries between nature and culture, between human and more-than-human—boundaries that have shaped the modern conception of the human as superior to other species.
In light of the biodiversity and climate crises, we need radically new ways of imagining and understanding that humans are not separate from nature but part of it. It is in this light that we can view Holst’s works.
The works weave forth new imaginaries of the garden and remind us that the plants inhabiting our gardens may be more like us than we tend to believe—that our bodies are closely connected to the bodies of flowers, not as an escapist fantasy but as a political act of resistance for surviving on a damaged planet.
- Creator:Marie Holst (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 55.91 in (142 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
- Style:Organic Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:2025
- Production Type:New Custom(One of a Kind)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
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- Seller Location:Copenhagen, DK
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1869347512172
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