Garden warp garden weft | installation at Liblieng haus
The installation is part of the exhibition “Life Plant City: 100 years of Geddes Garden City in Tel Aviv” at Liblieng haus.
Installation Curator: Arch. Sabrina Cegla. Exhibition Curators: Shira Levy Benyemini and Arch.Limor Yossifon-Goldman.
Woven polypropylene rope installation mounted on wooden rods across three balconies of the facade.
Gilat Blum's woven installation, climbing across the balconies of the Liebling Haus from ground floor to roof, is a poetic homage to Patrick Geddes's vision of the urban block garden as a fragment of nature within the city a social and intimate space interwoven with the urban fabric.
"The city," Geddes said, "is not built of bricks and stone - it is a living tissue. "The green and blue ropes stretched along the building's façade draw the eye and offer a renewed perspective on the familiar surroundings - a gentle mediation between inside and outside, shifting from the dense layers at ground level to the open view above. The Bauhaus building becomes a spatial loom, its balconies framing interlaced layers of landscape. The vertical warp threads and the horizontal lines of the façade create rhythm and movement.
Inspired by textile artist Anni Albers, who taught at the Bauhaus, the installation explores weaving as a way of shaping space - textile as soft architecture in which threads tell the story of place, and the balconies become a woven garden. Curatorial text by curator Arch. Sabrina Cegla.
Photos: Yael Schmidt, Liblieng Haus.