Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

Suspended Garden Installation

Ochi Projects presents a project by Karolina Maszkiewicz with several installations, each comprised of plants and flowers that together create an ever-changing, live environment, a garden of sorts, which she hopes visitors will experience and enjoy over the course of the exhibition.

Alongside large-scale sculptures hanging from the ceiling and stacked on the ground, Maszkiewicz also created a series of faucets with upside-down flowers pouring out and landing in piles of pollen on the floor. Though these installations are awash with metaphor and meaning, Maszkiewicz focuses on them to investigate life, death, rebirth and the more tenuous side of human’s relationship with nature.

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

These are concepts artists have explored throughout time, but Maszkiewicz looks at them at this specific moment in history. As a Los Angeles-based artist, working in the era of celebrity, social media, and during a historic drought, Maszkiewicz’ sculptures and temporary installations take on a profound sense of both celebration and melancholy within the context of the urban jungle.

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

In a two week period, Maszkiewicz’ installations will dry, wilt and die, a kind of microscopic and in-fast-forward analogy to our own life trajectory. Maszkiewicz’ intent is not to be morose, rather, she uses the flowers as a symbol to represent our basic human instinct that strives for beauty, no matter the impermanence.

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

Karolina Maszkewicz ochi projects photo michael underwood

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