4th Floor -1

If we can see the garden as a space of multifarious reflections on finding and searching, becoming and passing away, beauty and its opposite, closeness to nature and distance to paradise lost, this inclusiveness also reveals an interchangeability with any other systems.
Lois Weinberger, spring 1999

Lois Weinberger
Map 1997/99

Plants are often named after parts of human bodies and animals, as well as ordinary goods in terms of their forms and characters. For example, "tiger lily (tiger)," "sunflower (sun)," "haircap moss(haircap)," etc. The words in this map such as "dog, liver, teeth, soap, wall, king, witch, crescent..." often appear in German plants'names.

Lois Weinberger
Toties Quoties 1993

This Latin title means "as it is." {E605+E606} in the middle is the number of virulent agrichemicals while {=EISPRUNG} means fertilization. He knows that it is from unexpected connection of things or laws in the natural world that most accidental things happen.

4th Floor -2

Lois Weinberger
Kindergarden 1998

This work comes from the small garden created at the workshop of April 1998 in the nearby kindergarden, when he visited Japan to create the roof garden. In his first visit to Japan, he was deeply impressed with this red net to protect the garden from ball play of children. To be protect and to be confined are the same thing. This artist says "It is impossible to protect nature nor understand the freedom of nature. All we can share with nature is death."

Lois Weinberger
Movement 1999

The contour line in the middle is a mountain, which also means ripple when we throw a stone into the water. Words lying around are nouns and adjectives without any relation with each other; such as "wave, silence, pressure, milk, lawn, desert, light, bellybutton, name of acquaintance, father, fog, belief, exile..., etc." Small change in the natural world can produce unexpected things one after another.

Lois Weinberger
Skyline 1994

This was also exhibited at Documenta X in Kassel in 1997. It seems like a city sunk in the moss. According to the artist, it was by accident that this clay city in miniature got moss. It also reminds us of the famous animation by Hayao Miyazaki "Nausica in the wind valley," which tells us about "the city devoured in the rotten sea."