05 / FIVE FIELDS OF PRACTICE

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EARLIER WORKS

Earlier works trace recurring concerns with landscape, transformation and cultural constructions of nature.

Demontage, installation with thirty-six pulverised Alpine summit stones
Demontage · 1995–1997
INSTALLATION1995–1997

DEMONTAGE

Thirty-six stones taken from Alpine summits are duplicated in stoneware. The original summit stones are then ground into dust and presented as small mountains, each identified by its geological and geographical data.

The work reverses the heroic image of the summit. Collection becomes erosion; possession becomes dissolution; the mountain returns as material and scale.

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INSTALLATION / ACTION2002

TATAMI
LANDSCAPE

Artificial-grass tatami forms are set within a field of white gravel. The geometric islands become places for kneeling, encounter and ritualised action.

The work translates the conventions of a Japanese dry garden into a provisional social landscape: constructed nature becomes a surface for use.

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Tatami Landscape, participant kneeling on an artificial-grass tatami
Tatami Landscape · 2002
Tatami Landscape, two participants seated across white gravel
Tatami Landscape · installation detail
Karesansui installation at Kunstraum Dornbirn
Karesansui · Kunstraum Dornbirn · 2006
Karesansui installation at the Contemporary Art Center Aarhus
Karesansui · Aarhus · 2006
INSTALLATION / ACTION2006

KARESANSUI

A reconstruction of the Ryōan-ji dry garden at a scale of 1:5 replaces its stones with small cones of gravel. Reduction becomes a process of gradual dissolution.

Visitors enter a landscape that can be used and transformed: an image of contemplation becomes material, action and temporal change.

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