Discarded shoes wait outside the front door, the ornamental birdbath is meant to lure birds, a trampoline recalls the carefree laughter of children. Rake, wheelbarrow and flower bed bear witness to gardening work done. A tit fat ball hangs from the ceiling, with animal heads instead of food inside the netting. Why not take a seat on the hybrid bench and enjoy the calm of the front garden idyll? The audience moves through the outdoor space, relocated indoors, as if between islands. Is it part of the installation and thus part of the front garden? And if so, who else belongs to it?
Material shifts are a game of confusion about value: what looks industrial is handmade, what seems handmade is industrially produced. Stone animal heads are made of paper, the marble is fake, the crochet pattern is silicone. Mainka's play with proportions, with kitsch and double motifs intensifies such moments of tipping. Shoes shimmer metallically on the wall, recall silhouette cutouts, could also be silhouettes of birds.
Such moments of tipping recur with the fence. With Mainka it is not a fixed barrier but a permeable lattice, passable from both sides.