Cura’s Garden by Ben Thorp Brown brings the courtyard of the former 13th century monastery into Kunsthal Gent’s “Endless Exhibition”. Unfolding over time through choreographed and natural processes, this installation creates an idyllic and foreboding landscape that deepens links between our senses, emotions, and earth itself.

Cura’s Garden is named after the ancient Roman goddess Cura, the personification of care; a returning figure in Ben Thorp Brown’s work about humanity’s relationship with architecture and environment. Following on Brown’s project The Arcadia Center, this work creates a new space for attention to a landscape that transcends its own boundaries. Gardening itself is an act of empathy with non-human living things. The garden evokes images of the sublime, metamorphosis, and regeneration and invites visitors to develop a relationship with this place over time.