The exhibition Flora & Forces is planned as a duo show between the sculptor Jens Ingvard Hansen and painter Anne Louise Blicher to be shown at Kunsthal vARTe in Varde, Denmark. In a visual dialogue they interpret the concept of Flora and the inner forces of nature. 
Anne Louise Blicher will create a vertical garden of paintings mounted in displays based on the Rosehip, which as an invasive plant creates problems locally by killing the beach-dune. She is questioning the way we relate to the landscape and territorially control the surroundings. The works are inspired by Marcus Terentius Varro’s (116 BCE–27 BCE) meditations on farming in his treatise Res Rusticae (country matters) (37 BCE), where he talks about 12 agricultural deities; nonhuman agents each possessing natural power and forces. Among others Flora the goddess of flowering or blossoming plants and new growth. The works reflect upon how nature’s own processes and structures can be part of new sustainable fluid anti-territorial infrastructures opposite the political land. How we can understand plants as more than just instruments (crops, medicin, energy, fibers, aesthetic objects) but as potential agents, who like an Acheiropoieta can transform data without direct human intervention, like the idea of the goddess Flora. 
The show is postponed at least until August 2020 as all galleries and museums in DK are closed in the moment as we are only allowed to gather max 10 people due to Covid19. 

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