Hortus
Knowing there is no failure, 2018
Giclée print, 84 × 59.4 cm, edition of 2/7 + 2AP
Hortus is a photographic project and artist book inspired by urban gardens in West Amsterdam, Floriography — cryptological communication through flowers and the history of female rights. Created with seasonal Amsterdam plants over twelve months, the project explores how flowers carry layered social, symbolic, and historical meanings. Drawing from Victorian flower books and Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers, Luganskaia translates botanical symbolism into constructed still lifes, using flowers as both visual language and a lens on female history and everyday perception.
The project consists of 12 photographic still lifes and was exhibited internationally at UNSEEN, Athenaeum, and Delpire & Co Gallery, Paris. The book was presented at FOAM Museum, Amsterdam.
Hortus is held in the collections of MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; RKD – The Institute for Art History, Den Haag; Central Institute of Art History, Munich; UC Berkeley Library; and the Martin Parr Foundation.
Installation view ‘Hortus’, 2020. The Studio, Amsterdam
Installation view ‘Hortus’, 2020. The Studio, Amsterdam
Temporary Mirror Sculptures: Blue, Hortus, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Temporary Mirror Sculptures: Green, Hortus, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Installation view, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Twenty-four October Plants, Installation view, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Installation view, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Twenty-four October Plants, Installation view, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Twenty-four October Plants, Installation view, This Art Fair, 2022, Amsterdam
Hortus, book launch, Foam museum, 2021, Amsterdam
Hortus, book, 33 x 24 cm, 40 pages, Printing: Offset, hardcover, full color. Publised in Amsterdam in 2021
Temporary Mirror Sculptures: Green, Private Collection, 2023, Amsterdam
Hortus, Installation view, Athenaeum bookstore, 2022, Amsterdam
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Lecture - performance: 'Floriography', 2018, The Perennial Institute, Berlin
Installation view, 'Hortus', 2018, Twoffice gallery, Seoul, KR
Installation view, 'Hortus', 2018, Twoffice gallery, Seoul, KR
'Sharpness', 'A Boaster', 2018 from Hortus project. Inkjet print, 20,9 x 29cm
Installation view, Foam Editions gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Blink Magazine, Nr 53, 2019, Seoul, KR