Flowers and Birds

Flowers and birds always end up at the focus of existential meanings, drawing us in with how open they are to interpretation. They are codes and triggers that have acted on people for thousands of years through art, literature, music, cinema and fashion. They are present in everything driven by a thirst for beauty and by the need to make sense of how fleeting existence is.

It is precisely in images of flowers and birds that we see the symbols of past and coming epochs, their aesthetics and their attitudes.

From the curators’ statement.