As part of Gallery Weekend Berlin, ChertLüdde presents September and the Lions, a solo exhibition by Álvaro Urbano. The exhibition works as a disjointed landscape, showing different glimpses of a late-summer evening in Tiergarten–Berlin’s largest public park. The gallery space frames a permanent, artificial dusk: a yellow hue settles across the room, rain drops cling to the windows. Suddenly the interior is displaced outward, and the exterior takes refuge within. 
 

The detailed botanical replicas refer to plants that have been sourced from a particular area of Tiergarten, near the Löwenbrücke (Lions Bridge). This secluded zone remains an active cruising site–a public space which is used to have casual sexual encounters, usually between men who have sex with men–the overgrown foliage provides an improvised scenario for queer intimacy. The multiple dimensions of meaning converging in one single space reflects Urbano’s interest in heterotopia.
 

Urbano articulates the landscape into scenes, presenting different specimens out of their real context, but allows the public to relate to them in their real scale. The plants behave both as scenery and active performers. They navigate the space and simultaneously provide different ways to wander through the exhibition, blurring the lines between history and fiction and sketching a certain ecology of desire.