Art, Nature

28\11\2014
Written by Daan Rombaut



Per Kristian Nygård invades indoor spaces with plant life installations

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Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård’s latest installation, “Not Red But Green,” is a lush, hilly lawn that spills out of gallery NoPlace in Oslo. The manicured grass resembles a well-kept park instead of a gallery and in that way conflates the boundaries between indoors and outdoors. Conceptual and cryptic, Nygård draws inspiration from a fever dream he experienced while having the flu. In that dream, he discovered a lump on his own body and imagined himself crawling through craters of flesh and forests of hair. The grassy hills come from his personal nightmare, but brought to life in the gallery they create a beautiful yet disorienting experience that questions how we commodify natural phenomena for human consumption.

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