KATIE WEST ‘Garden at the End of Time’ at Tin Sheds Gallery

July 3, 2024

Katie West is featured in the group show Garden at the End of Time at Tin Sheds Gallery from 06.06. – 19.07.24, curated by Anna May Kirk and Tai Mitsuji. The exhibition explores the garden as a politically and culturally charged site where meaning is constantly cultivated and negotiated as an ever-evolving ecosystem rather than an ossified microcosm.

While the garden is often tied to its Edenic “beginning,” anthropologist Natasha Myers suggests how contemporary gardens increasingly respond to a sense of the end. In our time of climate catastrophe and late stage capitalism, she describes how gardens “throw us into the world, induce anxiety, and get us very interested in the urgency of life and death at the cusp of collapse on a damaged planet.” Propelled by this urgency, Garden asks what radical ideas stir and grow in the garden today? Using found and naturally dyed textiles, video, and sound, Katie likewise creates installations and happenings that invite attention to the ways we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures together.

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Image caption: Installation view of Katie West in Garden at the End of Time at Tin Sheds Gallery, 2024. Photo by Maja Baska Photography.