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The exhibition Nightblooming by Ananda Serné has grown out of the artist’s visit to an orchid nursery in Taiwan. Orchid seedlings cultivated at this nursery are sent to the world’s largest flower auction, near Amsterdam. From there, they find their way to windowsills across Europe. At the orchid nursery, the plants are exposed to artificial daylight so they can take root and develop. In the auction warehouse and transport vehicles, they may go without sunlight for several days.
Light, and how it affects not only people but also other creatures and materials, is a central component in many of Serné’s works, both thematically and formally. Several of the works she shows in Nightblooming are created using light: footage shot on 16mm film show the warehouses in the Netherlands, where forklifts loaded with flowers drive in seemingly endless, hypnotic circuits. Textile works in wool and silk, hung in front of the windows of the gallery space, carry the imprint of the morning sun. The…
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The exhibition Nightblooming by Ananda Serné has grown out of the artist’s visit to an orchid nursery in Taiwan. Orchid seedlings cultivated at this nursery are sent to the world’s largest flower auction, near Amsterdam. From there, they find their way to windowsills across Europe. At the orchid nursery, the plants are exposed to artificial daylight so they can take root and develop. In the auction warehouse and transport vehicles, they may go without sunlight for several days.
Light, and how it affects not only people but also other creatures and materials, is a central component in many of Serné’s works, both thematically and formally. Several of the works she shows in Nightblooming are created using light: footage shot on 16mm film show the warehouses in the Netherlands, where forklifts loaded with flowers drive in seemingly endless, hypnotic circuits. Textile works in wool and silk, hung in front of the windows of the gallery space, carry the imprint of the morning sun. The…
























































































































