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- ascending, descending
- connecting space
- constructed nature
- destabilisation
- encountering others
- expectations
- heightened awareness
- intervention
- landscape
- looking up, looking down
- moving water
- reconfiguring space
- rethinking the institution
- site-specific installation
- slowing down
- there is no outside
- volcanic
- walking through
- water
- you only see things when you move
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 |
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