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In I Fell Asleep and the Garden Was Growing, the garden is presented as a metaphor for the cycles of life. Photographs of the human body, fruits and plants are choreographed into disorientating sequences. A subtle tension emerges between the everyday and the dreamlike, between reality and imagination. These analogue prints evoke memories of art-historical scenes, while the visible chemical traces reflect the ongoing attempt to capture, through light and time, the discrepancy between picturesque truthfulness and an invisible reality.

By making the photographic process so visible, I Fell Asleep and the Garden Was Growing compels us to recognise the inherent subjectivity and filtering of reality embedded within every photograph. What role does photography play when reality withdraws or conceals itself? And what does it tells about the way we look at our surroundings?