Laurits Nymand Svendsen

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Plateau, Passage, Fordøjelse, Yderlighed

Plateau. Installation with elevated forest floor, 2015. Collaboration with Malte Klagenberg. A 7m long triangle of forest floor is elevated about 3m and makes for a new environment in which plants have no competition from the roots of large trees.

Passage. Installation with animals cast in transparent polyester, 2015. Collaboration with Malte Klagenberg. Installation view: The casts sit on tree stumps. In front is a bullfinch.

A ferret and a bullfinch in solid blocks of polyester.

A hedgehog in a cracked block of polyester.

A rabbit in a cracked block of polyester.

Fordøjelse (“Digestion”). Installation with hay, hemp rope, mycelium from oyster mushroom, 2015. Collaboration with Malte Klagenberg.

The hay ball was infected with mycelium from oyster mushroom. Feeding on wood, the mycelium weakened the rope from which the ball hang. causing it to fall to the ground. Detail: Oyster mushroom growing from the fallen hay ball.

Yderlighed (“Extremity”). Installation with sealed section of forest floor, 2015. Collaboration with Malte Klagenberg. The work is seen here shortly after having been made.

Detail: A fern reaches the top of the box. The sealed environment is more susceptible to changes in temperature.

After 1 year, the environment inside the sealed box has become highly monocultural.