In case you missed it at the Venice Biennial back in 2003, here’s one awesome installation that’s worth remembering. Set up in the San Stae church on the Canale Grande, Falling Garden by Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger encapsulates the duo’s creative genius, which has been running full force since they started working together in 1997. Visitors lie on the floor to view the carefully constructed components of found and discarded items, which appear frozen in time as they hang from the vaulted ceiling above. The full list of objects that the two talents collected from all four corners of the globe are listed on their website as follows:
Plastic berries (India), cow pads (Jura), waste paper (Venice), baobab seeds (Australia), beech, elder and magnolia branches (Uster), thorns (Almeria), nylon blossoms (one-dollar-shop), pigs’ teeth (Indonesia), seaweed (Seoul), orange peel (Migros shop), fertilizer crystals (home grown), pigeons’ bones (San Staë), silk buds (Stockholm), cattail (Ettiswil), cats’ tails (China), celery roots (Montreal), virility rind (Caribbean), wild bore quills (zoo), banana leaves (Murten), rubber snakes (Cincinnati)…
Find out more about the pair and their interactive site-specific installations here.




















