Mia Capodilupo

The Garden of Eden by Mia Capodilupo

I have used steel, fabrics, foam, cast rubber, clay and plaster, food
and castings of real plants to create the Garden of Eden, an installation
that transports the viewer to a seductive, unknown and contradictory fantasy
world that is beautiful and dangerous. The installation investigates the
primal idea of the Garden of Eden, paradise or a utopia, our perennial
longing to return or escape to such a place.

The piece is made of synthetic products that reflect hours of human
labor (including the artists in the hundreds of cast and string-wrapped
individual pieces) but as a whole references natural formations. It combines
human-made elements of the urban landscape with the forms of nature, becoming
an oasis or imaginary world within a busy city street/neighborhood while also
turning familiar objects into a strange alien world where the viewer might
escape the ordinary and mundane.