CURATION AND EXHIBITION DESIGN OF HAV BY ELIN T. SØRENSEN (2020)
HAV means Ocean in Norwegian, and is an exhibition with the works of artist, landscape architect and PhD candidate Elin T. Sørensen. The exhibition is on at the Norwegian BioArt Arena, NOBA, until December 2020 .
Curation and design
HAV is designed to be an immersive marine environment for audiences of all ages to delve into. It was important that Elin T. Sørensens work and the exhibition design flowed seamlessly into one another. Through close collaboration with the artist concepts such as the Flutter books, Seafloor shelf, recycled sail projection window, and a live testing lab for marine life to test out the artist’s sculptural work.
The flutter books allow the audience to interactively flick through the artist’s research from the kilometer big perspectives of landscape architecture, down to the microscopically small perspectives of marine biology.
The Seafloor went from being a display idea, to becoming an artwork in its own right created by Elin T. Sørensen. The shelf displays the objects encountered by the artist on her many dives in the Oslo fjord- that has shaped the artistic work in HAV.
Many of the artist’s sculptural elements designed to provide homes for marine life, is tested out by fish, crabs, shrimp and starfish in the exhibitions very own aquarium.
The exhibition has its own zone for children with specially made tables, magnetic sand and art equipment, with a Lobster Hotel decoration workshop for children and young people.
HAV has been featured in Arkitektur N and Oslofjord Ecologies.
About HAV
Across the planet, marine ecosystems are under pressure. What’s at stake is the diversity of species and the essential roles they have within their ecosystems. We must also remember that these species are just as important for us here on land! When our cities meet the ocean, the teeming life underwater is destroyed or threatened. Humans are becoming more and more distant from the sea, and forget about the needs of the ocean during urban development. Originating in the meeting between artistic vision, marine biology, tidal landscapes and marine life HAV proposes solutions for co-existence of human and marine life at the shore.