"Landy has been botanising in little urban margins, looking for their earliest colonising flora as well as the longerstanding floral residents. Collecting weeds from urban brownfields, from cracks in pavements and the corners and verges of car parks, he has kept them fed and watered and has spent hours drawing each one, first on paper then on copper plates. The result is a series of etchings .... these images play out a contemporary vernacular aesthetic that is Landy's own distinctive contrivance....
Much of Landy's work broaches a dialectic of history and the present, of politics and art. ... Landy's work asks questions about consumerism, entitlement and capitalism, as well as about the role of artists and their productions." Tate
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