Holland Festival - Wilting Flower by Daan Gielis

The transience of the flowering process

Daan Gielis grew up with plants—his mother is a florist, and his father is a landscape architect—and was attracted by their transience. Wilting Flower fuses the spectacular beauty of flowers with the science of their transience.

The glowing light of the neon sculpture, embedded in a different space for each exhibition, enters into a dialogue with the context. What does it shed light on? Wilting Flower, which resembles a childish, cartoonish flower drawing, becomes a universal sign. In its simplicity and poetic appearance, it makes you think about intertwined opposites: life and death, nature and culture, melancholy and innocent joy.

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