Essay
Published by IDOART, 2025
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Standing unfinished for years following defects in its concrete foundation, the high-rise Njals Tårn holds an ambiguous place within the Copenhagen skyline. Drawing on first-hand observations from within the building, the essay follows the site during a prolonged period of suspension, observing the forms of presence, occupation and life that emerges in the absence of ongoing construction.
MA thesis
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability, Institute of Architecture and Culture, The Royal Danish Academy
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Dezeen
Situated along the Spree River in Berlin at the former divide between East and West Germany, the project proposes a long-term ecological maintenance strategy in response to the river’s ongoing ecological decline. Addressing both local residents and surrounding tech industry, the thesis developed a series of architectural proposals and speculative scenarios through which a new socio-ecological landscape could emerge based on the cultivation of a shared urban wilderness.
Laserprinted mirrorboard on HDF
40x30cm (x2)
Based on imagery sourced from a technical report on subsurface gravel wetlands, the series reproduces terrain documentation on reflective mirrorboard. Responsive to shifting light conditions, the images change appearance according to viewing position. In one image, a back figure appears at the edge of a depression in the landscape. Presumably the photographer or terrain worker themself, momentarily shifting from observer to subject.
Video, 11:30 min
The video work unfolds as a loose sequence of encounters during the arrival of spring in the northern Scandinavian wilderness. Through the lens of a handheld camcorder, attention gradually drifts across an open valley, moving between animals, helicopters, and the appearance of a solitary flute player performing improvised melodies on a homemade metal flute.
Installation view: Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2023
One-way mirror, black mirror, blue liquids, charcoal, plywood, posters
Installation view, The Danish Energy Agency, 2023
Presented in the foyer of the Danish Energy Agency, the installation took the form of a speculative institutional display reporting from an unspecified future. Developed in dialogue with the foyer’s existing displays of fuels, minerals and models, the work provided access to a series of early AI-generated future scenarios through a QR code embedded within the installation.
Curated and facilitated by PLATFORM, hosted by the Danish Energy Agency, supported The Danish Arts Foundation
Video, 04:10 min
Set within a remote mountain landscape, the video work documents an improvised process of classifying stones according to two categories: ‘free stones’ and ‘fixed stones’. Zooming back and forth between individual stones and the wider landscape, the camera wanders across the terrain as the situation gradually escalates.
Installation view, Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, 2022
Found materials (feathers, metal, tyre rubber, electrical cable, wire, plastic and wood)
A series of artefacts assembled from discarded materials gathered on a remote parking site. The works were developed around the idea of an ‘archaeology in reverse’ - a process in which information is obtained through the continued evolution of a found object rather than through its analysis.
Three-channel video, 12:05 min.
Originally developed as a three-channel video installation, the work documents an improvised tracing of tyre marks across a large, remote parking site. Different moments of the same circular movement unfold simultaneously across the screens, producing a continuous overlapping motion. The work forms part of a broader series of studies on the site between 2020 and 2022.