Garden II develops the material system first established in Garden into a new site-responsive, durational installation. Salt-coated stones are arranged beneath suspended infusion bottles containing coloured liquids. At hourly intervals, liquid is released onto the crystalline surfaces below, where it penetrates, dissolves, stains and recrystallises.

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The work unfolds between long periods of apparent stillness and brief releases of stored energy. Anna Rún determines the installation’s basic structure, but the materials continue on their own terms. Salt, pigment, stone, liquid, air and gravity produce changes that cannot be completely predicted or reversed. Throughout the exhibition, the stones become records of repeated contact.

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Presented in 2024 in the former salt-processing Sudhaus at Bad Ischl, the work entered an architecture already shaped by the extraction and transformation of salt. Historically, water was used there to separate commercial salt from rock. Within Garden II, those substances meet again at another scale: water breaks down the salt crust while carrying colour into the stone, making visible a relation that is both productive and destructive.

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The installation does not progress towards a finished image. Its subject is the transformation through which each temporary image appears. Natural matter is altered within a constructed technological system, yet neither artist nor apparatus fully determines the outcome. Garden II remains a performance conducted by interdependent materials, continuously revising its own surface and history.