Konstnären håller en stor lur i plywood mot örat

Brakfesten

Artist: Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Pauline Doutreluingne
Parent project: Out of the Sky, into the Earth
Curator: Edi Muka, Helena Selder
City: Visby
Category: Temporary art
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Brakfesten / La Grande Bouffe by Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Pauline Doutreluingne is an art project in the form of a living sculpture and a film. The work focuses on the nature reserve of Södra Hällarna where elm trees are threatened with extinction. Fallen and felled trees lie around like infected dead bodies and the ecosystem has been disturbed. But in the larger cycle of life, even the dead trees can be of help to restore and maintain the ecological cycle.

 

 

Image 1 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Konstnären håller en stor lur i plywood mot örat
Image 2 of 20. Installation av Brakfesten
En teckning i sprakande färger
Image 3 of 20. Detalj ur teckningen Brakfesten av Anne-Duk Hee Jordan och Pauline Doutreluingne
Image 4 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten. Picture: Ricard Estay
Image 5 of 20. Konstinstallationen Brakfesten i Södra hällarnas naturreservat i Visby Picture: Ricard Estay
Image 6 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 7 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 8 of 20. Detaljbild från installationen Brakfesten
Image 9 of 20. Detaljbild från installationen Brakfesten Picture: Ricard Estay
Image 10 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 11 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten. Picture: Ricard Estay
Image 12 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 13 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 14 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten. Detaljbild. Picture: Ricard Estay
Image 15 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 16 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 17 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 18 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.
Image 19 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten. Detaljbild på Brakfesten.
Image 20 of 20. Från invigningen av Brakfesten.

The artists use debarked elm tree branches to create a gigantic sculpture with several elements that mimic the pattern the bark beetles leave on the elm tree trunk. Hollowed branches filled with soil are transformed into “tables”, with plants from the area growing from their carved bodies, creating a banquet for insects, beetles, birds and other organisms. Other logs are turned into water basins and insect hotels, surrounded by birdhouses and miniature huts for rabbits. Among them appear a hilarious painting full of colors, an oversized birdhouse and a pair of gigantic listening horns resembling moose ears. We’re invited to come close and use them to sense the surroundings, listen to the sounds of the forest and experience the world from the other species’ perspective.

The sculpture is at the same time an act of acknowledgement and of giving back to the earth, and to the lives that both, sustain it and are sustained by it. It also becomes the stage of the film with the same title, where the small and invisible inhabitants of the area are the main protagonists.

About the artists

Anne Duk Hee Jordan is a Korean-German artist born in 1978. Her work includes drawings, hand-built robots, edible landscapes, sculpture, film and sound. It is mainly the other life forms, insects and plants that live alongside humans on Earth that she lovingly observes, invites and casts as lead characters in her art works.

Pauline Doutrelouingne is a freelance curator and educator born in 1982 in Belgium. Through her work she seeks to stimulate a cultural dialogue with a focus on ecology and de-colonial thinking. Her curatorial projects are dialogues and exercises into progressive imaginaries.

They work and live together in Berlin.

Find the artwork

Stig från parkeringen vid huvudentrén till Södra hällarnas naturreservat.
GPS Koordinater: 57.619691,18.271118
Toftavägen 16, 622 59 Visby, Sverige