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Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Sketch for Riverbed, 2014 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
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Riverbed fills the white space of the museum with a grey, rocky landscape through which a narrow stream meanders. The landscape, comprising stones of various size and shape and in a range of grey tones, slopes up gently from where visitors enter and the stream disappears. Visitors are free to choose their own path as they move up towards the source of the stream, where the water bubbles up mysteriously through the stones. The contrast between these entirely new pathways and the routes suggested by the museum’s architecture challenges visitors’ expectations and invites them to find innovative ways of navigating the space.

 

 

Artwork details

Title

Riverbed

Year

2014

Materials

Water, Icelandic rock (volcanic stones [blue basalt, basalt, lava], other stones, gravel, sand), wood, steel, plastic sheeting, hose, pumps, cooling unit