Invisible Gardening is part of Thomas Pausz´ residency project at the Delfina Foundation´s Politics of Food  Programme. For this project, Pausz documented low-tech hacks in urban gardens, and DIY solution to Climate Change and increased soil pollution. The exhibition is accompanied by the article Why Hack Your Vegetable Garden?  published in the Politics of Food book by Sternberg Press.

“Due to high risks of contamination in this area of London the original soil had to be removed to lay down an artificial membrane about a meter deep in the ground. Non-contaminated soil was poured over this membrane, in which crops could grow ‘safely’. Invisible to the eye, the membrane was the condition for nature to exist again. The gardeners often remembered this moment of recovering the last piece of the geo-textile with soil as a founding ritual for the place, one that will be repeated in many gardens to come.(…)“

Photography: Thomas Pausz / Nicola of Evening Class & Tim Bowditch, Courtesy of Delfina Foundation.