Did you know there is an International Garden Festival? In fact there has been 22nd of them! And one is happening right now in France. I came across this beautiful public art garden installation by French architects Meir Lobaton Corona and Ulli Heckmann, titled Outside-in.
Outside-in is a garden within a garden, a “micro-universe” where landscape and architecture intermingle, seeking to prompt a reflection on the duality between what we know and what we see.
The architects describe the installation as “a meditation about space, light and the possibility of infinity”. “This fun scene might well allude to an episode in Alice in Wonderland,” they continue, “where Alice peeks through the lock of a tiny door, glimpses a beautiful garden and realizes there’s no way she’ll be able to enter it…”
“Our garden is conceived as a visual paradox, as device that enhances such conditions in order to make the audience realize how by relying only on sight we rely on imagination, that is to say, on interpretation,” state Corona and Heckmann, pointing out how the sense of vision can preclude the possibility of “a holistic experience of life”.
See loads of more photos and information on Domus, or Sinbadesign. Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to France to see this in October. Anyone want to join?
Architects: Meir Lobaton Corona, Ulli Heckmann
Photographs: Fabio Ferrario
Via Domus