Before the plants of the Green School return to their summer quarters in May, the small glass house at the Botanicum will be home to a photographic installation. The Japanese-born, Vienna-based artist Hiroshi Takizawa uses photographs not only as images, but also as materials, objects and even living beings. The artist took a series of photographs in the botanical garden and returned here again and again with the printed images to photograph them again on site. In this way, different levels of light and shadow were interwoven.

From this, he created pictorial objects that he carefully arranged. These communicate through the glass walls with the constantly changing vegetation in the garden. At the same time, the antique wooden table conveys a sense of bourgeois living rooms with their plant décor.

Takizawa has chosen a German title for his installation that can be translated as 'distance', but also as 'removal'.

Curated by Johan Nane Simonsen