Christine Melchiors - "Sommer skulptur", Ærø

The garden

"Sæberirets have", 2 km from Søby

Three elliptical gardens hanging from a tree,
Materials: everlasting hedge, fabric, embroidery, photoprint and metal rings

Turning landscape , mobile

Turning landscape 2

Sæberiets have, Søby 1 juni 2018

As a room in a room in a room, nature is uncapturable, domesticated and disciplined. Divided into parcels, parks and gardens. Indeterminate and pending intervals, which again say something about land and owner. Trails and roads, the living fences and garden hedges are visible signs of these divisions.

By repeatedly going through a landscape, it becomes a kind of backdrop of stories about one's life. A backdrop reproduced on paintings and pictures that in turn generate new landscapes. As with the garden, the clothes that cover a body also form a soft transition space between outer and inner.

Turning landscape of memories

Gardens and clothing are each in their own way soft transition spaces between the exterior and the interior. Nature as such can only be understood the moment it is "domesticated" or dominated. The installation is a reflection on the artificial relationship we have with nature and land, the way it is controlled and divided. The land, in principle, is "everyones", but in fact it is shaped by public roads and paths that twist through a landscape divided into lots. The installation suggests an imaginary, delicate and artificial garden that floats somewhere between these different concepts.