The Rea Garden - triangular piece of land located in Digbeth

The Rea Garden is a triangular piece of land located in Digbeth. Once there was a factory there, now only some ruins and a few burned beams remained. After twenty years of lying fallow, it was restored to life by three artists hiding under the name Behind Closed Doors . They invite other artists to produce work relating to the space and also organise exhibitions. That idea absolutely amazed us, especially because is very similar to what was happening in Gdansk in the 80s on the Granary Island thanks to artists like Grzegorz Klaman, Kazimierz Kowalczyk, Jacek Staniszewski, Eugeniusz Szczudło, Jarosław Filiciński, Robert Rumas and many others. Here, too, artists have grubbed up bushes overgrowing the space between the ruined walls and created a gallery - studio under the open sky, where nature mixes with culture.

Below there is a photo of the show of Claudia Borgna, who uses plastic bags in her art and creates installations that are not only aesthetically beautiful but also raise a very important problem of production and collection of waste. Traveling around the world made her realise how great the production of waste is, and how much it is settled in the natural landscape. Claudia does large scale installations, massively invading the space, thus referring to mass production. She tries to build awareness of overproduction of waste. Her works emphasize the conflict between culture and nature, and their interactions.

Claudia Borgna