During her studies, Tereza Tomanová focused on the topic of gardens. Viewing the gardens through personal mythology, she was inspired to approach this subject on several universal levels. Tomanová’s art is characterized by the conscious use of a broad range of materials, including fruits and vegetables, which she places into various different contexts.

For her graduation work, she has focused on the relationship between people and gardens – how they are made and all the things a garden might be for people. In her series of paintings made using dyes made of red cabbage and inorganic compounds, she works with the principle of suppression and expansion. The piece is also a reflection on how plant communities behave in nature. At the same time it asks the question, „What meets with what“ – which is the central theme of the entire piece and thus encourages us to think about the idea of the garden. The variability, impermanence, and colorfulness of the dyes used form the basic starting points for the metamorphosis of the garden and the cyclical character of nature.

The installation works with a mysterious medieval courtyard, symbolism, plants, and a metaphorical reference to human existence. It questions the extent to which man is a creator of things. This idea led the artist to grasp the garden as an imaginary place where we find ourselves in the role of gardener. These questions are then loosely developed in the work’s performative part involving a rake.