In the Garden (Libera and Flowers) series Zofia Kulik used
collected flowers from her garden and photographed them arranged on the
black and white photos of Zbigniew Libera. These images that are part of
the Archive of Gestures include around 700 photographs of him in various poses taken from the history of iconography. She subordinates each composition to the specific character of the photographed plant. Poppies, roses, iris leaves or lime-tree flowers form heraldic arrangements in which the artist gives priority to the sexual vitality of the naked model. The same floral ornaments were already used by Kulik in her earlier works. Their geometric arrangements may bring French formal gardens into ones mind, where everything is precisely designed, and trees and bushes are trimmed into artificial regular shapes.