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Ratu R. Saraswati
Parable of the Flowers
2020-2022
A series of photographs of the flowers on the neighbourhood facade garden (geveltuin) of Amsterdam Oost (East) taken by Saraswati in Spring 2020 during the pandemic.
The photographs were given to the neighbours with handwritten notes on the back by the artist in spring 2021.
Parable of the Pilgrims
2020
A series of photographs taken at De Schreeuw, Oosterpark by Saraswati. The photographs capture the flowers dedicated to Samuel Paty, left there on 23 October 2020. Mixed among the flowers are messages left by protesters commemorating Theo van Gogh on 2 November.
Parable of the Unstolen Fig/ Freedom of Figs
2021
A series of photographs of a neighbour's fig tree. A tree with abundant figs that never ripen.
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