Indoor Branch . 2018
After more than ten years of working in a white-walled studio, Gilbert explores a more intimate setting at home. Indoors and out, the installations depicted in the photographs participate in a strange and artificial ecosystem—they develop, grow, inhabit their world, fall apart, and then regenerate in different guises. Interior nesting takes on a wild kind of growth.
With thin dead branches set in plaster and butterfly stickers whimsically applied, nature’s frailty comes to the fore and assumes a gendered significance.
Klaus von Nichtssagend
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