Installations

Living Botanicals

MAP’s sculpture courtyard transforms into a garden with Living Botanicals—a space where plants native to the subcontinent grow, change, and are cared for over time. Here, plants assert themselves as living subjects, enclosed by a pavilion becomes both infrastructure and sanctuary.

Architect Bhavana Kumar of Kumar La Noce builds a grid that provides a light organisational structure, offering rhythm without strict containment. Within it, gardener Kush Sethi’s ongoing cultivation supports growth that is responsive and seasonal. The work unfolds over time, with care as a central material.

As both installation and reflection, the garden can be read as a quiet response to archival traditions grounded in ownership and control. It leans instead toward continuity, interdependence, and lived presence. Here, plants are encountered not as scientific curiosities, but as living beings: rooted in soil, shaped by climate, and sustained through everyday acts of tending.