Open Garden Days - Entanglements
The Open Garden Days take place from Thursday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21. The Luther Museum is one of the starting locations. Especially for this occasion, the Italian-Dutch artist presents a special sculpture, Entanglements, which explores the connection between man and the world.
From Thursday 19 through Sunday 21 June, the Open Garden Days will take place. The Luther Museum is one of the starting locations. Especially for this occasion, the Italian-Dutch artist presents a remarkable sculpture, Entanglements, which explores the connection between humanity and the world.
The work of Maura Biava will be on display throughout the summer as part of the World Pride programme “Our Faith is Love.”
Maura Biava, based in Amsterdam, explores how the organic world unfolds according to underlying structures of information, matter, and energy. In her work, these principles take on a tangible form. Clay functions as matter, while mathematics, numbers, and natural patterns carry the flow of information; her hands and actions set energy in motion.
In Entanglements—inspired by a famous engraving of devoutly folded hands by the Lutheran artist Albrecht Dürer—a simple gesture is imbued with new meaning. Flowers grow out of the praying hands, which gradually dissolve into their surroundings and merge with the garden and the nature around them. The work suggests a state of interconnectedness in which the boundaries between humanity and the world fade.
Director of the Luther Museum, Steven van Teeseling: “Biava invites us to attune ourselves anew to nature, not only as something to protect, but as a system of rhythms, geometries, and interrelationships of which we ourselves are inextricably a part.”
