Ben Thorp Brown - Cura's Garden

American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened 'Cura's 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 garden's young life and features linocut botanical prints by the artist's mother, Cary Thorp Brown. Essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans, and Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical, and affective valences of the site-specific installation.