Vienna-based symbolist artist Gaïa Pilens creates expansive textile murals that speak to the collective unconscious, weaving together fragments of folk traditions, prehistoric visual language, and contemporary thought. For Æquō Gallery, Gaïa presents two textile works as a prelude to her evolving concept, Enclosed Garden.

It is this shift, from containment toward boundlessness, that informs GAÏA’s vision. To realize these works, she collaborated closely with master embroiderers in India introduced by Æquo Gallery, who hand-stitched the textiles using traditional techniques. The two textile murals presented here embody the duality at the heart of her vision. One speaks of the earth, a grounding force that roots us in matter, memory, and ancestry. The other turns toward the sky, evoking the immaterial, the cosmic, and the possibility of moving beyond visible limits. Together, they form a dialogue that transcends enclosure: a passage between origins and aspirations, between the ground we walk on and the boundlessness above.

Through these works, GAÏA reimagines the Enclosed Garden not as a fixed site, but as a living allegory of transformation, an eternal cycle of grounding and transcendence, containment and release.