Boaz Aharonovitch:
Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover
SOLO SHOW
January 23 – February 26, 2020
10 TIMES SQUARE | 1441 Broadway, New York, NY 10018
Curated by Aya Goshen
Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover, Boaz Aharonovitch’s ongoing photo-diary, documents a gardening project that took place in his studio. Incorporating photographic works and a single-channel video art installation, the archived garden is created from flowers, vegetation, and containers Aharonovitch collected from his immediate surroundings. Committed to the process, he cultivated his plants, staged them to create the most appealing image and photographed them - hoping the image will attract an unknown lover. The outcome of the process is a meditation on the ephemerality of the garden as a metaphor for the passage of time and longing.
Aharonovitch’s curiosity about gardening began with a 30 days project in 2011 that resulted in an art book and a video work. Since the initial photo journal, his fascination with the subject and horticulture knowledge continues to deepen and has inspired a large body of work, becoming an integrated part of his practice.
Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover exhibits highlights from this ongoing series in ZAZ10TS, a gallery located in the lobby of an office building at the hyper urban environment of Times Square. Presenting the works in this hectic context emphasizes the slow, organic, and intimate process that the works depict. It might offer the building’s community and passerby a private moment of contemplation and a pause from the never-ending race of the city.
PRESENTED BY BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN
