“As a boy, the German artist Kurt Schwitters had a garden that was destroyed by neighboring children. That event led Schwitters to an epileptic crisis that left him bedridden for two years. Based up on this tragic story, the exhibition A Garden at Night by artist Tiago Madaleno and its accompanying book explore the relation between body and landscape through concepts of trauma, performance and writing. The book is divided into two journeys: one a mirrored accordion folio with interplay between several artistic illustrations and poetic sentences, the other comprising four texts by four authors: Allen S. Weiss, Pedro Pousada, Nancy Perloff and Madaleno. The exhibition was shown at Porto-based art gallery RAMPA.”