- Visual Art
- Installation
- Public Art
Undergrowth
Tiana Jefferies
3 July 2026 19:00–22:00
4 July 2026 12:00–22:00
5 July 2026 12:00–19:00
Undergrowth is a site-responsive installation by Tiana Jefferies created within the community garden at KINDL. The work brings together reclaimed underground infrastructure—industrial power cables—with lightweight materials associated with outdoor recreation, including kites, ropes, and technical textiles.
The cables previously ran beneath the city as part of underground electricity distribution networks, acting as material conduits for an otherwise intangible force—carrying energy generated from geological resources through buried lines and into the buildings above. Suspended among garden structures and vegetation, the lighter aerial materials introduce a different set of associations: movement, exposure, and contact with the elements. Installed together, these materials form a shifting network that runs through the garden space.
Fluorescent markings highlight intersections and lines of tension, drawing attention to moments where materials meet, cross, or diverge. Rather than forming a fixed structure, the installation unfolds as a loose landscape of lines, weights, and connections that respond to the particular conditions of the site.
Situated within an active community garden, Undergrowth exists alongside ongoing processes of cultivation, maintenance, and growth. The installation becomes part of this environment, where plant life, human activity, and the remnants of urban infrastructure occupy the same ground and continuously shape one another.
The cables previously ran beneath the city as part of underground electricity distribution networks, acting as material conduits for an otherwise intangible force—carrying energy generated from geological resources through buried lines and into the buildings above. Suspended among garden structures and vegetation, the lighter aerial materials introduce a different set of associations: movement, exposure, and contact with the elements. Installed together, these materials form a shifting network that runs through the garden space.
Fluorescent markings highlight intersections and lines of tension, drawing attention to moments where materials meet, cross, or diverge. Rather than forming a fixed structure, the installation unfolds as a loose landscape of lines, weights, and connections that respond to the particular conditions of the site.
Situated within an active community garden, Undergrowth exists alongside ongoing processes of cultivation, maintenance, and growth. The installation becomes part of this environment, where plant life, human activity, and the remnants of urban infrastructure occupy the same ground and continuously shape one another.
Biography
Tiana Jefferies
Tiana Jefferies is an artist working with sculpture and installation. Her practice is grounded in material experimentation and uses movement as a method for developing sculptural form. Working with materials associated with outdoor activities—such as camping equipment, climbing rope, and kitesurfing kites—she explores relationships between bodies, built structures, and ideas of nature. Her installations often take the form of temporary or responsive structures that emerge through processes of tension, gravity, and site conditions during their making. Jefferies approaches environmental themes with irony, foregrounding the tensions that shape relationships between humans, materials, and the environment. She lives and works in Berlin and works freelance as an art handler.
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