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type With Slow Dream, OF A brings a dark botanical landscape into the Great Structure at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026, where the garden appears to increase from the floor as a living things. Presented from May 19th to 23rd, the setup marks the second expression in the studio’s continuous OF A GARDEN series, following Moon Garden, first revealed during Frieze Week London 2025.
OF A works throughout objects, environments, exhibitions, and landscapes. With this series, the studio, founded by Ralu Emandi and Laura Lim Sam, treats the garden as a sculptural body.
images © Edmund Sumner sluggish dream at chelsea flower reveal 2026 At this year’s Chelsea Flower Program, OF A’s Slow Dream envisions a botanical surface formed by burning, development, and renewal. Blackened kinds recommend volcanic matter and fertile soil, while thick shadow-like planting moves away from ornamental floral screen toward something better to a landscape held
in suspension. The installation’s strength lies in that tension between item and environment. Its charred surfaces carry a sense of heat and aftermath, while the planting checks out as shape, trace, and imprint. Within the Great Structure, that makes the work feel spatial before it feels floral, closer to a constructed terrain than a traditional garden stand.
Slow Dream imagines a botanical terrain shaped by burning, growth, and renewal from ground airplane to living type OF A describes the job as part of a broader examination into the ‘garden as item.’ In useful terms, that implies the garden is treated as a thing with volume, edge, texture, and existence. It can being in a room, form an environment, and move the viewer’s sense of scale without behaving like a mini landscape.
There is an architectural concept going through the piece. Slow Dream turns planting into a material system, positioning botanical life in discussion with surface area treatment and spatial composition. The garden ends up being something built and grown simultaneously, its dark combination providing the installation a compressed, practically geological weight.
blackened types recommend volcanic matter and fertile soil a darker reading of botanical area by of a That darkness provides the job its identity. Rather of the brilliant abundance typically connected with the CHELSEA FLOWER PROGRAM, OF A works with shadow, burn marks, and mineral texture. The impact is intimate and a little strange, as if the garden has actually gone through fire and went into another stage of growth.
Slow Dream likewise speaks with a broader shift in how gardens are reading within style culture. Here, the garden becomes a cultural things, a spatial proposition, and a way to consider change. OF A’s technique recommends that botanical environments can hold memory and state of mind while still operating through material accuracy.
dense shadow-like planting suggests a landscape held in suspension charred surface areas bring a sense of heat and consequences, while the plantings check out as shape