Flo Kasearu – Do Not Step on the Grass

Villa du Parc itself becomes part of the exhibition’s logic. Built in 1865, the villa has served several institutional roles over time, including a courthouse, police station and tax office, while also functioning as a family residence. 

Flo Kasearu approaches this layered history through an imagined perspective: the gaze of a solitary child living in the building during the 1950s. From that viewpoint, spaces normally associated with authority begin to shift. Administrative interiors start to resemble places of play where rules appear less stable.

Across the rooms, drawings, paintings and sculptural objects introduce subtle disruptions. In one gallery, bright drawings line deep green walls while a perforated bench sits beneath them, hovering somewhere between seating and playground equipment.

Another room shifts the atmosphere. Orange walls and patterned wallpaper frame several paintings alongside a small architectural structure mounted on wheels, resembling a movable fragment of stage scenery.

Further along, transparent panels and red floor markings turn a corridor into something resembling a sports court. Visitors move around these elements as they pass through the space.

Rather than confronting authority directly, the exhibition introduces quiet displacements. Once institutions begin to resemble games, their certainty starts to loosen.

Why This Exhibition Matters

By filtering institutional architecture through childhood imagination, Flo Kasearu introduces a quiet instability into spaces usually defined by authority. The exhibition suggests that even rigid systems begin to shift once their rules begin to resemble play.

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