V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its new three-month programme dedicated to the interrelation of art, technology, and landscape. In this issue, we publish the work of the artist Anna Komarova, who explores the relationship between man and the environment.

The Secret Garden installation is an exploration of human perceptions of natural phenomena and technological processes, as well as the gap that occurs between this knowledge and reality. The artist wonders, what the attempt to control biological processes leads to and where is the boundary between interaction with nature and power over it?

Anna Komarova’s work is a greenhouse, the external appearance of which does not coincide with the internal content. The work attracts with its bright white light and mysterious shadow of plants, however when you go inside, the expectation instantly crumbles like dried petals. In the greenhouse—instead of beautiful flowers—one finds only the remnants of a man-made disaster: a mysterious object made of synthetic materials.