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Sai in ”Lignum” (by Ann Hamilton, 2002) at Wanås, Sweden, 2025.
Wanås Konst has been an international sculpture park and center for art and learning since 1987, run by the non-profit Wanås Exhibitions Foundation. The exhibition is located adjacent to Vanås Castle. Art is displayed in the beech forest by the park and in exhibition halls in renovated stables and warehouse buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 2002, Ann Hamilton (born 1956 in USA) was offered to create a completely new work on all five floors of ”Magasinet” from 1823. In her art, she works with bodily experiences, to strengthen impressions with the help of the senses. In ”lignum”, she highlights the history of the place Wanås and makes the work a room to be in rather than a story to interpret.
Hamilton refers to the building as a body. On the floors, we encounter the installation at different heights. Upstairs, a parquet floor has been laid as a reference to the castle's environments. On the next floor, there are 42 wooden tables made of beech with carved discs at hip height. Upstairs, kilometers of warp thread are stretched between pillars like a web that reaches to eye level.
Sai in ”Lignum” (by Ann Hamilton, 2002) at Wanås, Sweden, 2025.
Wanås Konst has been an international sculpture park and center for art and learning since 1987, run by the non-profit Wanås Exhibitions Foundation. The exhibition is located adjacent to Vanås Castle. Art is displayed in the beech forest by the park and in exhibition halls in renovated stables and warehouse buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 2002, Ann Hamilton (born 1956 in USA) was offered to create a completely new work on all five floors of ”Magasinet” from 1823. In her art, she works with bodily experiences, to strengthen impressions with the help of the senses. In ”lignum”, she highlights the history of the place Wanås and makes the work a room to be in rather than a story to interpret.
Hamilton refers to the building as a body. On the floors, we encounter the installation at different heights. Upstairs, a parquet floor has been laid as a reference to the castle's environments. On the next floor, there are 42 wooden tables made of beech with carved discs at hip height. Upstairs, kilometers of warp thread are stretched between pillars like a web that reaches to eye level.