This exhibition stems from a love of gardening, a practice that brings people into direct contact with nature and its cycles of growth and decay. Gardening requires patience, presence, and an acceptance of impermanence. Each season brings surprises; no outcome is guaranteed. While gardening people feel connected to nature, not just observing it, but being a part of it.
The gallery has gathered a group of artists who make work focused on the natural world. Historically, landscape painting sought the sublime with images of sweeping vistas and grand spectacle. All Nature Has a Feeling brings people into an intimate, fingertip connection to nature. From a roadside weed to a woodland path, these works invite us to slow down and pay attention, to find wonder in what we commonly ignore.
Why do we experience nature as external, a resource, a view, rather than something we are a part of. This distancing has a history. Scientific classification, Enlightenment ideals, and aesthetic traditions have taught us to separate, categorise, and control. Scientists like Linnaeus and Darwin gave us hierarchies and taxonomies, which helped us understand the world but also shaped how we value it: the pure over the tangled, the beautiful over the overlooked, the useful over the seemingly useless.
The scale of the climate emergency can feel overwhelming but by following the artists’ lead, by honing in on the manageable details we can begin to make a difference. The contemporary philosopher Emanuele Coccia reminds us that we do not live on Earth but within it: the air we breathe connects us to other bodies; the food we eat becomes our cells. Naming a tree by the roadside, a weed outside the window, is already a form of recognition, of kinship. Olivia Laing (herbalist/art critic/novelist/gardener), reveals how nature enters our emotional lives, offering healing and connection in a fractured world.
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Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
