Garden Eden

A simulated Garden Eden for the ultimate escapism.

The project "Garden Eden" examines the idea of an ideal place and the procedure promoting the failure of this construction a.k.a. the expulsion from paradise.

Against the backdrop of a worldwide collapse of the principle of a constant improvement in the coexistence of human kind "Garden Eden" is trying to find a visual code for describing a paradisaic ideal place to serve as an escapist shelter; the work is meant as a simulation of a Garden Eden, including the second part of this narration: the expulsion, the loss of the ideal place. Garden Eden's visual language is syncretistic and so is the selection of the pictured anecdotic motifs. The imagery takes references from scriptural narration around the place called Paradise, but also from secular ideas of an ethic set of values.

For the visualisation I playfully apply clichés, kitsch and hyper emotionalised motifs and fictitious settings spiced with traces of reality to make the narration emotionally readable.