Danh Vo Untitled, 2021

Must be sold with "Take My Breath Away", 2017 This collage is part of a new series Danh Vo just started that focuses on flowers. In an effort to find a new form of simplicity, Vo decided to dedicate his energy to the beauty of flowers, growing a new garden around his studio at Güldenhof, an old farm in Brandenburg outside Berlin. He wanted to feel closer to these flowers and he challenged himself to get to know their names and be able to recognize them. The flowers were photographed on the farm; the C-prints are glued on paper and labelled in pencil with their Latin name by his father. The works have an encyclopedic aura, like pages plucked from a large book and framed. This presentation along with the Latin names shows how we index and formulate nature according to our own values. In the names there is a history of global exchange, colonialism, and power, but also of aesthetics, utility, and cross fertilization.