Knot Garden

Knot Garden

Minor Gallery
18/10, 2024
Jægersborggade 49, Copenhagen
Wed – Friday 11-17, Saturday 11-16
or by appointment

TGE Exhibitions
15/11, 2024
Stigbergsliden 5, Gothenburg
Friday 17-20, Saturday – Sunday 11-15

Knot Garden, an exhibition by Georg Nordmark, transforms the gallery into a romantic garden, which imagery and spatiality ties together themes of romance, artificiality and behaviour.

Nordmark’s practice examines the concept of ‘behavioural enrichment,’ i.e., objects designed for captive animals to evoke and stimulate behaviours inhibited by their confinement. By appropriating and refining these forms and concepts, Nordmark creates sculptural work that explores aspects of agency, movement, and control.

Knot Garden borders on an installation, as the sculptures shown transform the gallery space and direct the movement of its viewer.

The floor is all but covered by a large, chlorophyll-green bed, imploring the visitors to lie in it and look up at the overhanging mobile, while being surrounded by rose-adorned walls. All this comes together to form a stylized and disjointed garden, whose nourishments and pleasures are reduced to mere abstractions.

The title refers to knot gardens, a very controlled and aestheticized form of gardening, where bushes are kept level and cut into interweaving banded patterns, paralleling the use of woven material in the show and underpinning the theme of subjugated nature.