Gillian Brett: Jarden Synthetic: Nature Re-Wired: Unititled Houston Art Fair 2025 – BOOTH: A27

DON'T LOOK Projects presents a remarkable American debut in Gillian Brett's solo exhibition—a disquieting technological terrarium that confronts the viewer with exquisite unease. Brett's installation, Jarden Synthetic: Nature Re-Wired, exists in that fertile conceptual terrain where the organic and electronic collide, creating a garden of post-natural delights that simultaneously seduces and disturbs.

 With a range of new works, the artist will transform the booth into a botanical garden. The presentation will focus on the Adventices series, which showcases intriguing specimens of spontaneously growing weeds. These unusual plants are made up of electronic elements: delicate imprints of computer circuits embedded in silicone form vividly colored leaves. Their contours, molded from machinery elements and cast into resin, reveal copper and cabled roots. 

The artist’s research delves into the evolution of modern agriculture, examining the decline of traditional farming practices in favor of mechanization, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and precision farming technologies. With humor she questions humanity's control over nature—now whether confined to parks, manipulated in laboratories, or turned into efficient ornamental objects. 

At the heart of this eclectic garden, works from the After Hubble series will punctuate the space. There, Gillian Brett intervenes directly on LCD screens, skillfully fracturing their surfaces to reveal poetic, fragmented visions of the starry sky.

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