OLAFUR ELIASSON

body and spirit we have always


Before the advent of autumn you
miss the summer
at the clinic after children
miss childhood

If the world
exists only disaster imagery
readily available and leaves
if they would emit the fragrance of the forest

In the vast expanse of the top floor of
the city echoed the bass
you on a white ceiling
with white chalk wrote:
Thus, in the rest of the time in
people will miss

- Hu Fang

In a sense, leading to the garden of the journey itself is the mirror mirror garden.

Came to this new space between art and research, you might be from Guangzhou, leave this highly modern city, where history will mean for the future of the city and are thrown to the infrastructure behind, toward a semi-rural The region embarked. This area just fifteen minutes away away, is the seat of the dragon agriculture Grand View Garden. But the journey does not stop there, the dragon through agriculture Grand View Garden, you can arrive before the end mirror garden. Garden and art practice in the mirror nurtured here, the journey continues to expect the arrival experience are important lies.

The first shuttle in Guangzhou city, I did not think what is worth watching at the city; dazzling design, urban master plan covering mutual superposition, as long as I leaned back, it was in his own city rhythm take me forward - I became the consumer space and time. Just left the city, to the dragon in agriculture Grand View Garden on the road, I approach a village named Dongzhuang. Here, I felt a strong sense of the presence of others. The village is a mix of new and old, abandoned buildings scattered among a number of apparently cost of expensive houses. , This village and there is no more beautiful place than other up, there is no more unbearable, there are also totally idyllic romanticism does not exist. However, the stay there of the time, I felt the presence of the producers gradually transformed into a time and space from the consumer's. In the absence of urban planning began to highlight here. While you yourself traveling through this village trajectory design a blueprint for the organization of space in the walk through the process, you become a planner working in the walking.

For a street countryman, the dragon agriculture Grand View Garden is a surreal mix - it is a botanical garden, but also a Agricultural Museum, which also lies a new village. Rooted in the reality of farm attached reminiscent of British romantic courtyard garden design - at first glance, I was surprised, a little piece of Utopia scene makes me confused.

Mirror Garden is ideally located just such a unique cultural landscape. In such an environment can be seen in a place built for art, it makes me excited. And the building itself stems from the idea that in a garden-like environment to build a miniature village. In fact, considering the initiation garden mirror above the spatial experience of a series of unusual transition and change. It also suggests a new art venues built confidence, fundamentally speaking, this and how we make reality related. “We have always shaped body and spirit,” the inspiration for the exhibition stems from the idea that such a plant and agriculture for the humble built environment as a platform, the full responsibility to deliver to the audience, so that he / she becomes a mirror garden this a space in the active person. This is a platform full of potential, intimacy can be pushed to the limits of the village, can cause tiny event when viewers walk in the meantime, you can accurately render temporary dimension of life.

This environment makes my art can be presented directly by the environment itself, in a plain and simple manner and spatial relations occur. Without occupation of space, there is no need experience impressed. Instead, space, art and the audience here mutual cooperation, mutual tolerance, Hospitality dimension thus born.

For the exhibition “We always body and spirit.” When you expand the idea, I'm around this idea: building will find itself in reflection and identification of works of art; the visitors will find themselves in works of art; art works in buildings find themselves; and building visitors will find themselves in the. This is not to say that they are seamless. Instead, the focus here is on the identity of the displacement of economics. “Mirror Garden” is not about their own mirror reflection is on the ability to identify more nourishment, and we are faced with this certification unknown but feel like a road similar things.

- Olafur Eliasson