The Garden
Curated by Tanya Berlinski

Video installation by Theo Eshetu
9th November – 19th December 2025

The most acclaimed movie, outside mainstream cinematography,
a remarkable fusion of image and sound,
Koyaanisquatsi (1982), by Godfrey Reggio, shows our
planet untouched by civilization, with intact nature,
then transgressing it into landscapes which we have
constructed for economic growth, for competition
and destruction.
The Garden, by Theo Eshetu, is a mesmerizing video installation
created today, but somehow connected with Reggio’s
idea as another breathtaking creative voice mirroring
nature and ourselves. The artist has created a spectacular
environment with synchronized moving images surrounding the
spectator who enters the exhibition space. We face
beauty and perfection as if trees, flowers and meadows
were continuously observing us. We dwell in the kaleidoscope
of majestic images, as the nature is dwelling in us.
This exhibition inspires you to admit that we should value
nature as a model, measure and mentor. Today we know
that trees have a life of their own. They send out electrical
impulses to one another and emit chemicals that
warn of danger. They nourish each other and share information
through a complex underground network. They
communicate by way of scent and sound waves, visual and
electrical signals.
Technology is not a separate category for the artist. We
live with it as with the air we breathe, but the artist is
fully aware of the distance one needs to have to the tools
which one uses to express the given creation. Eshetu says:
“Technologies have literally entered our Mind and Body,
blinding us to the essence of human life”.

The Garden
Text by Tanya Berlinski