"The Garden I Will Never Get To Have"
“The Garden I Will Never Get To Have” is the title of Lola Zoido’s exhibition.
“In March 2020, a news story appeared in the press that took just a few hours to become a meme: Caelie Wilkens, a British woman, had been caring for a plant for two years that turned out to be made of plastic. Wilkens told the newspaper that she felt deeply disappointed, that “those last two years had been a lie.” I laughed. I forwarded it to contacts who also laughed. But two years later, every so often, I remember the words of that devastated woman. I wonder if, during those two years of care, until the woman dissected the pot and discovered a piece of cork at the bottom, that plant was really fake, or if, like in Schrödinger’s cat experiment (impossible to prove), that plant was real and fake, simultaneously, until the exact moment in which it was removed from the pot and had to decide on one of those two states. The question that comes back to me every one or two months is the following: can something that produces real feelings become fake?”