The Ignorant Gardener

Gardens and orchards offer a unique perspective to understand the complex and dynamic relationship between humans and the natural environment. For centuries, the transmission of knowledge acquired in horticultural practices played a major role in the evolution of our society both culturally and technologically. But in recent years, mainly due to the conveniences offered by new technologies and their exponential growth, more and more people have become disconnected from nature, resulting in an increasingly digital society that lacks the basic knowledge to understand natural processes in general.

The Ignorant Gardener is a photographic project drawing on artistic movements such as constructivism, ready-made, Bauhaus or surrealism. Through the mixture of different artistic disciplines such as sculpture and digital photography, the purpose is to create a series of unlikely images with compositions outside of any physical logic to make us reflect on the lack of knowledge that contemporary generations have of one of the oldest trades in the world, horticulture.

Yurian Quintanas Nobel is part of Der Greif X Grisebach: “New Positions”.