Occluded Depths investigates the hidden landscapes of sand and gravel extraction beneath Denmark’s seabed: vast craters formed by dredging activities that sustain the nation’s architecture yet remain unseen.
Occluded Depths investigates the hidden landscapes of sand and gravel extraction beneath Denmark’s seabed: vast craters formed by dredging activities that sustain the nation’s architecture yet remain unseen.
Through analysis of restricted data, diving expeditions and material experiments, the project uncovers these invisible architectures of absence and reflects on the entangled relationship between resource extraction, ecology and the built environment.
Beyond the technical challenge, the work became an artistic and narrative investigation into how scale, absence and experience can be conveyed.
The exhibition translates digital and geological traces into film, physical models and spatial mappings, forming a tactile narrative about environmental responsibility and the material origins of our cities.
Occluded Depths was developed in collaboration with Ph.D. fellow Cand.arch. Emma Rishøj Holm and Professor Stiig Markager from Aarhus University’s Institute for Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, with support from Statens Kunstfond.
The project was originally presented at the 2025 Copenhagen Architecture Biennale, curated by Copenhagen Architecture Forum.
