"Sanctuary" was exhibited at the Blueprint Festival Exhibition in Tate Liverpool from 18.07.14 to 2.08.14. More information about the exhibition is available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/display/blueprint-festival-exhibition
A lot of human activity endangers the environment and damages our ecosphere. By reintroducing nature into daily life, we can observe her and learn to have respect for her fragility. We need to be reminded that it is necessary to care for our natural biosphere and to remember our roots - our origins are not in the metropolises of today. In the past, we tried to build shelters for ourselves from the powers of nature. Now, we need to build sheltered spaces to protect nature from our development.
In "Sanctuary", I portray the reintroduction of natural spaces into human habitats, which is often done through the creation of sanctuaries for natural life (such as natural reserves, parks, gardens, greenhouses) in and around urban environments. Even in the world’s largest and densest cities, we are dependent on our symbiosis with nature. In these cities, people use greenhouses (such as the one portrayed in "Sanctuary") and other means to create a space to raise their own, small piece of rural land on which they can grow plants for their aesthetic value and even their own crops for food. In "Sanctuary," images of a rainforest serve as the link between wild, undomesticated nature and her substitute - an artificially created natural space within the greenhouse.