Pine Cathedral
Twelve pine trees moved slowly across the church floor, each singing with its own voice. The trunks echoed the pillars of the church interior. Created in the context of the Swedish forestry debate.
The work brought together recurring questions: the forest as a political and sensory presence, and the viewer’s body and movements in response to a living, moving environment.
Pine Cathedral, turns the forest issue into a physical experience. Here the forest is not an abstract administrative matter, but a presence that smells, sings and moves among us. The trunks of the pine trees mirror the vaults and pillars of the church. The forms of nature and architecture meet, and the cathedral becomes a forest – the forest becomes a cathedral. The relationship with the forest can never be resolved in balance sheets; it must live and breathe in constant motion between loss and rebirth. My Lindh’s work makes me feel the inner time of the forest, which moves far beyond the contemporary quarterly perspective and reminds us that responsibility is measured in generations.
—Ulrika Flink. Full text available here (sv)
Curator: Dorothea Flodin. Music: Maria Eilersen. Produced with kind support from Region Stockholm
Pine Cathedral
Twelve pine trees moved slowly across the church floor, each singing with its own voice. The trunks echoed the pillars of the church interior. Created in the context of the Swedish forestry debate.
The work brought together recurring questions: the forest as a political and sensory presence, and the viewer’s body and movements in response to a living, moving environment.
Pine Cathedral, turns the forest issue into a physical experience. Here the forest is not an abstract administrative matter, but a presence that smells, sings and moves among us. The trunks of the pine trees mirror the vaults and pillars of the church. The forms of nature and architecture meet, and the cathedral becomes a forest – the forest becomes a cathedral. The relationship with the forest can never be resolved in balance sheets; it must live and breathe in constant motion between loss and rebirth. My Lindh’s work makes me feel the inner time of the forest, which moves far beyond the contemporary quarterly perspective and reminds us that responsibility is measured in generations.
—Ulrika Flink. Full text available here (sv)
Curator: Dorothea Flodin. Music: Maria Eilersen. Produced with kind support from Region Stockholm
