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Brigade is proud to present the solo exhibition ‘Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold’ by Danish artist Albert Grøndahl.
Grøndahl’s work vibrates within multiple temporalities involving the past, its decay, and the encounter with its traces. It refers to ruination, to the materiality of being, to an order of ephemerality by which we are partially constituted. It deals with the gaps between things, the dirt trapped between floor tiles. The results of slow processes of life and death, chaos and construction.
Nowhere is this more present than in Grøndahl’s ongoing exploration of the enclosed garden, the hortus conclusus, as a conceptual, symbolic, and architectural form. Uniting within itself an assemblage of disparate aspects, the enclosed garden seeks to understand the landscape it denies, explain the world it excludes, and bring in the nature it fears.
Holding utopian promises of nature’s power to tame the brutality of the mundane, the monastery gardens sequester themselves from the…
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Brigade is proud to present the solo exhibition ‘Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold’ by Danish artist Albert Grøndahl.
Grøndahl’s work vibrates within multiple temporalities involving the past, its decay, and the encounter with its traces. It refers to ruination, to the materiality of being, to an order of ephemerality by which we are partially constituted. It deals with the gaps between things, the dirt trapped between floor tiles. The results of slow processes of life and death, chaos and construction.
Nowhere is this more present than in Grøndahl’s ongoing exploration of the enclosed garden, the hortus conclusus, as a conceptual, symbolic, and architectural form. Uniting within itself an assemblage of disparate aspects, the enclosed garden seeks to understand the landscape it denies, explain the world it excludes, and bring in the nature it fears.
Holding utopian promises of nature’s power to tame the brutality of the mundane, the monastery gardens sequester themselves from the…










































































