Description

Details: Paperback. 65 pages. 2006.

About

In a curious botanical milieu peopled with costumed creatures born from myths and folktales, Janaina Tschape makes photographs and video. Melantropics, her first American monograph, documents recent works staged in the 79-acre Saint Louis Botanical Garden, a National Historic Landmark and one of the country’s oldest botanical institutions, and in Rio de Janeiro’s John Tyndale-designed Parque Lage. The linked projects incorporate the same costumes and props, leaving viewers to decipher their artificially luxuriant locales. Photographed and filmed during the spring, their subjects serve as transitory blooms and foliage, surrogates for those that have withered and those yet to blossom.

Exhibition dates: September 15–December 31, 2006.

Size: 9.25 x 7.25 inches