Hélène Binet's second exhibition at the gallery, oscillates between her photographs of the historical Palladian 'Villa Saraceno' (built in the 1540s in the Province of Vincenza) and the Lunuganga garden in Sri Lanka, built and lived in for many years by the architect Geoffrey Bawa.
"Perhaps the intent to represent space is like the journey of a traveller seeking to grasp the horizon," she writes. "The horizon line is intangible and unreachable, yet the path we are undertaking is what truly matters. While photographing Andrea Palladio’s work, my camera moves from the front to the back of the villa, shifting between focus and blur, framing small passages, and creating combinations of spaces that exist on the edge of perception.
With the garden of Lunuganga, Bawa created a place from a desire for belonging and escape—a place of grounding and vastness. I returned to the garden 21 years after my first photographic essay, driven by the urge to explore these original motivations."
