Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating the aesthetics of archeology, ecology and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion subverts their implicit rationality and claim to an undesigned reality. The artist’s Follies series takes its name from the 18th century architectural type — artificial ruins or pastoral hamlets built in the gardens of nobles to create edifying experiences of nature. As in Dion’s works, follies were rusticated to give the appearance of a long-standing structure in the landscape, emphasizing the mortality of the wanderer and the ‘naturalness’ of the estate. The artist has created sheds, shacks, field offices and hunting platforms, which reveal the ways our experience of nature is constructed and prescribed.