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Underlining the Biennale’s theme of the “in-between”, I Was Looking At The Garden When I Saw The Sky (Jeddah) lifts above the ground a garden patch that forms part of the outdoor layout of the Biennale spaces. The suspended garden references soilless, hydroponic agriculture techniques and questions entanglements of context, extraterritoriality, and globalisation. It stems from the artists’ exploration of soils and subsoils and their interpretive techniques in revealing the geologic underground to uncover social histories and palimpsests beneath the ground. The raised garden is held by a column which shows the archaeological and geological as possible narratives of Jeddah’s subsoil to visualise local timescales and processes of sedimentation. The installation evokes multiple cycles of construction, destruction, and regeneration. The artists point at the ruptures and transmissions of undergrounds where life interacts within complex ecosystems, which are sensitive to environmental and historical changes. The installation is commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025. Artists : @studiohadjithomasjoreige Manufacturing : @matterlab_x

Underlining the Biennale’s theme of the “in-between”, I Was Looking At The Garden When I Saw The Sky (Jeddah) lifts above the ground a garden patch that forms part of the outdoor layout of the Biennale spaces. The suspended garden references soilless, hydroponic agriculture techniques and questions entanglements of context, extraterritoriality, and globalisation. It stems from the artists’ exploration of soils and subsoils and their interpretive techniques in revealing the geologic underground to uncover social histories and palimpsests beneath the ground. The raised garden is held by a column which shows the archaeological and geological as possible narratives of Jeddah’s subsoil to visualise local timescales and processes of sedimentation. The installation evokes multiple cycles of construction, destruction, and regeneration. The artists point at the ruptures and transmissions of undergrounds where life interacts within complex ecosystems, which are sensitive to environmental and historical changes. The installation is commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025. Artists : @studiohadjithomasjoreige Manufacturing : @matterlab_x

‘Blow Up’ are sculptures representing fossils, fauna and flora and other natural or archaeological elements found beneath our feet. Elements and techno fossils that have changed state from organic to mineral. Based on encounter with botanists, archaeologists and prehistorians, the sculptures reconstruct a past life with new modes of transmission, with modulations of scale. What’s left here, these small traces, don’t seem to be visible to the eye, and require to change our point of view, scale or reference, as if through a microscope. This relationship plunges us strangely into a distant past, but also into an abstract, futuristic and almost science-fictional relationship as macro and magnification makes us lose notions of scale. It searches for the fantastic, what the naked eye cannot see and questions the relation to our environment. Artists : @studiohadjithomasjoreige Manufacturing : @matterlab_x