Longing
Performance and immersiv installation at the exhibition venue Renæssancejord in the closed prison Vridsløselille.
Visitors were invited to explore an interactive and sensory installation that extended over the prison corridor, 22 cells, common areas and the staff room.
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In a science fiction nature, the earth is renewed, reborn in fusions of nature and man-made materials.
Nature regenerates itself in an endless but changing cycle. In beautiful but also confusing sizes and shapes.
Something dies, something arises. Is it something we can breathe in?
How are we and our consciousness. And the animals and the plants and even the earth, the minerals.
We humans put ourselves at the center also in nature. But with that location, we undermine our survival because of it. We are part of nature, even if we often stand above it, observe it and overconsume its resources.
But do we long too? Do we miss the connection to nature, have we grown from it, can we recreate it?
Man acts more or less consciously opposite and away from the connection with nature. This contradiction is examined in the work. At the same time, an immersive sensory reflection space is created, where visitors can enter and participate fully physically by crawling into the core of the work, shaping and creating with their own hands. Draw, listen, be.
Welcome to the former prison, which is used to emphasize the theme. Nature captured by human needs. The person who longs to be close to nature, but cannot reach it.