INS 013          Mobile Landscape          Lois & Franziska Weinberger 2003/2011

Header image © Paris Tsitsos 
Text: Florian Matzner | (re)designing nature (2011), p. 173

The works of Lois Weinberger and his wife, Franziska Weinberger, who has worked with him on certain projects since 2002/03, resist the conventional notion of an idyllic garden. They question the usual practices of our society: destroying weeds, consigning nature to fenced-in areas, and revering Romantic cultivated plants, ruderal species and neophytes grow, or else the soil is simply left alone, to spontaneously sprout vegetation.

The Mobile Landscapes (aluminum containers outfitted with wheels and named after European cities and towns) contain nothing but ruderal plants. Packed in mobile packing crates with different destinations, they are like the documenta work, in that the function of a metaphor for migration, and also explore the theme of the explosive power of wild plants, which spread so quickly that they cannot be controlled by humans.

© Lois Weinberger

© maschek S., Martin Janda Gallery, Lentos Art Museum

© Paris Tsitsos 

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