Playfulness and Wonder: Ana Prvački for The Gorgeous Nothings

Ana Prvački
March 15 – October 5, 2025 | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England

Berlin-based artist Ana Prvački has conceived four site-specific performative pieces for this year's exhibition, The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth

The work takes inspiration from the goddess Flora and involves a live trail through Chatsworth's Garden and Park. With particular reference to the Ludi Florales or Games of Flora, the ancient Roman festival that honoured the goddess of flowers, vegetation and fertility, Prvacki leads her viewers into a realm of playfulness and wonder.

Intersections of science, folklore, spirituality, and human connection emerge in Prvacki’s conversations with nature.

This first film, above, focuses on her findings on and around Flora. 

Ana Prvački's second film is set in the historic Kitchen Garden at Chatsworth House. 

It is a sensual and surprising meditation on the intelligence of gardens. Blending gentle humour with ecological insight, the film explores how gardens are not only sites of cultivation but also of deep resourcefulness and imagination.

With a focus on soil as a living, breathing body—hot, steamy, and craving cover— Prvački draws poetic connections between fertility, gravity, and the intimate choreography of growth.

This is gardening as performance, as philosophy, and as provocation.

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