Platanus racemosa, 2025

Brass alloy casts from approximately fifty house keys traded with the artist for keys to the 7th Ave. garden; Dimensions variable

David Horvitz’s Los Angeles garden, home to a rich diversity of California native plant species, is an active site for public events and exhibitions.To disrupt its status as private property, Horvitz began an exchange: he offered keys to the garden’s front gate in return for peoples’ house keys.

For his exhibitions at ChertLüdde (22 November 2025 – 7 February 2026), Horvitz used the metal of these keys to created three brass-alloy casts. Taking the shapes of seeds, a leaf, or a twig from the garden’s California sycamore, the sculptures symbolically merge the public and the private. Through this gesture, Horvitz reflects on how a place might be opened, shared, moved, and reshaped by the people connected to it.