Cura's Garden / Ben Thorp Brown 黒鳥社 Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley

Each copy of the book is accompanied by a silver sticker sheet as a token of viral ephemera provoking the book’s classical endurance

The book brings together four recent

from his genre-bending portraits made in the United States

which will take place in autumn 2020 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf

Cura's Garden / Ben Thorp Brown 黒鳥社 Simon CritchleyBen Thorp BrownCuras Garden2023 2 (Laura McLean Ferris) American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Curas Garden in 2023, an immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project gathers an assortment of trees and other flora, plus sculpture, fog, and sound elements that form a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This book documents two years of the gardens