The pavillon was made as part of "Vandspejl", a summer exhibition where six artists were asked to respond to the Romantic garden Frederiksberg Have near Copenhagen.
The form of the pavillon echoes the bridge crossing over to the "Chinese Island" and the "Chinese Pavillon" - one of the garden´s Romantic tableaux. The work refers to the idea of the Devil's mirror from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "the Ice queen", the Devil's mirror inverts everything it reflects. Inside the pavillon a video is projected of the garden at wintertime, bypassers can only look in - they cannot enter. "The images reveal the body as the basis for memory and the ability to repress memory. In the heat of summer the images create a sense of nostalgia, a longing for a lost and unattainable past" (Mads Damsbo, Curator DK). |