In “Screaming Gardens,” Eric Pasino and Wenliang Zhao present a landscape overtaken by organic growth and visual mutation. Vegetation expands beyond the decorative backdrop, forming thick, immersive spaces where creatures and fragmented forms surface only to be partially reabsorbed into the environment. The exhibition unfolds as both a fertile terrain and a site of unease.

Working from distinct yet complementary approaches to figuration and image-making, Pasino and Zhao treat painting as a site of mutation and instability. Zhao’s compositions weave figurative suggestion with abstract sensibility, while Pasino’s layered processes subject the image to erosion, accumulation, and material unpredictability. Together, their works construct gardens that feel less like sites of rest than spaces of pressure and transformation.

In this exhibition, the garden becomes both metaphor and environment, a place where beauty and disquiet coexist. The “scream” of the title suggests an organic noise born from excess, friction, and relentless growth. Rather than presenting nature as passive scenery, Screaming Gardens is a charged ecosystem where images shift, surfaces thicken, and the familiar language of landscape gives way to something more visceral and alive.