Review of the Botanical Garden exhibition
Today, I visited the MA CAP exhibition at Inverleith House in Edinburgh’s Botanic Garden. Through visiting the exhibition today, I saw many artworks with the theme of plants, including paintings, installations and sculptures. I really like one of the artworks, which simulates the growth of a tree and invites the audience to decorate the tree with these colourful strips that can be bent and deformed at will to simulate the shape of tree branches.
Of course, there are many other interesting works, such as artificial intelligence plants combined with technology. In the future, perhaps the environment will continue to decline, and these futuristic plants will give humans complete control over the genetic code of plants. This kind of imagination is very interesting.
In addition, I think the venue of this exhibition is also very suitable for this theme, allowing the audience to experience plant art in an immersive way. For example, in the outdoor exhibition at Romesdal Common Grazing, which was mentioned in the introduction to ATLAS Arts during the lecture in the fourth week, the surrounding natural environment becomes part of the experience, allowing the audience to interact with the works not only intellectually, but also sensually and physically. In the indoor exhibition at the Staffin Dinosaur Museum, the artworks are displayed in an environment full of paleontological fossils, which gives the works a historical and cultural context. The diversity of the exhibition venues – from outdoor spaces to galleries – encourages the audience to interact with the works in a more immersive way, and the combination of art and a specific environment enhances the audience’s sense of experience.
I feel that this is also very much in line with my thinking. I want to create a scene in my exhibition that is in line with the theme. For example, my theme is the struggles of Asian women in the family and society (workplace), I want to simulate the exhibition environment as being like the family and workplace and place the artworks in appropriate locations. This will allow the audience to have an immersive experience.
