'Dry garden' is a two-person exhibition, an in-situ installation/environment build by Angyvir Padilla and Yoel Pytowski that occurred from their residency program at Notus studio and will be on view from the 18th until the 29th of June 2019
During their residency at NOTUS RES, Angyvir Padilla and Yoel Pytowski took as a starting point NOTUS Studio's floorplan and space, in order to ponder about the relation between Architecture and Nature through an indoor installation.
The exhibition space contains a sort of reproduction of the space itself where scales have been altered in order to host a ‘sculptural landscape’. The latter is composed of construction materials —resembling those used to build Notus’s space— in an attempt to bring these back from their architectural and functional use to their ‘natural’ and ‘raw’ state. A back and forth movement between spaces is created throughout the use of an architectural language mixed with references to Zen gardens. Usually, these are relatively small and surrounded by walls. They are also intended to imitate the intimate essence of nature, not its actual appearance. They serve as an aid to meditate about the true meaning of life. A zen garden —also called dry garden— is a way to idealize nature, and while these are meant to be seen from a single point of view, Padilla’s and Pytowski’s Dry garden has as many points of view as Notus has windows.
Their installation is an attempt to remind us that architecture “is nothing else than the arrangement of living materials from nature, belonging to nature …” And these, as men, are haunted by the same forces and always “in transit”.