Leakier Gardens

Images Festival presents Leakier Gardens, which includes the work of Erin Johnson, Gabi Dao, Véronique Sunatori, Yuula Benivolski, and Zaina Bseiso. The artists in this exhibition consider multiple forms of nourishment, sustenance, and cultural transference across bodies, territories and generational lines. Alongside these works, the garden extends beyond the plot to include those porous spaces in our lives that require tending to the growth of (one) another, allow entanglements to flourish and where fruit, flower, and seed demand attention and care– not from a master gardener– but through each cultural leakage, slippage, spill and spoil. 

Leakier Gardens is the second iteration in an ongoing series of screenings, exhibitions, and myriad potential manifestations. Hosted by Images Festival, this series considers the garden as something that, despite one’s intention, cannot be contained, and thus foregrounds the incontainability of edges and borders. The first iteration, Leaky Gardens, complicated the notion of the garden as a gentle refuge, revealing its colonial roots.