Candide’s Garden installation translates Voltaire’s novella “Candide, or the Optimist” into an occupiable microcosm, while shifting the focus from the main character’s journey to the background characters of the novella: the women, the servants, and the emancipated slaves.  

By portraying paradise, or rather disciplining paradisal spaces, Candide’s Garden sets up a collective drift. In a journey from Eden to paradise to what is an asymptotic approximation of paradise made by humans on earth, using Voltaire’s Candide, the work provides a rational way of looking at images by dividing each image into multiple layers of information.