New Ark is a site-specific artwork and urban space exploring water as memory, movement, and future condition. Set along the Aarhus River, the work imagines a landscape shaped by rising sea levels, where land and water merge into a tactile field of cast concrete tiles and steel lifebuoys.
New Ark is a site-specific artwork and urban space exploring water as memory, movement, and future condition. Set along the Aarhus River, the work imagines a landscape shaped by rising sea levels, where land and water merge into a tactile field of cast concrete tiles and steel lifebuoys.
The undulating surface translates the dynamics of waves into a spatial and bodily experience. Visitors are invited to walk across the shifting terrain, read the imprints of water in the material, or pause within the oversized lifebuoys. The work balances attraction and unease, reflecting the dual nature of water as life-giving and threatening.
Fluid simulations and digital modeling informed the shaping of the surface, allowing the movement of water to be embedded directly into the material form. The result is a landscape that feels both engineered and organic, precise and poetic.
Developed in collaboration with architecture practice Rumgehør and artist Ajarose Stinee Solvild.
