Cura's Garden / Ben Thorp Brown 黒鳥社 bringing about a heightened curiosity

bringing about a heightened curiosity towards all phenomena by taking a fresh look at reality

which perhaps could be even more interesting than the original itself

from his genre-bending portraits made in the United States

installation views

Simon Critchley

Cura's Garden / Ben Thorp Brown 黒鳥社 bringing about a heightened curiosityBen Thorp BrownCuras Garden2023 2 (Laura McLean Ferris) American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Curas Garden in 2023, an immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project gathers an assortment of trees and other flora, plus sculpture, fog, and sound elements that form a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This book documents two years of the gardens