LANDSCAPE YOU
BERG DUO approaches OUTLANDISH by giving attention to a disregarded space. A site between worlds, between functions, a cul-de-sac not as an end but as a beginning.
What you are witnessing is a ritual where the boundaries between subject and environment are eradicated, not vanishing, but becoming a fabric – together with
Swaying, leaning, re-emerging – the clandestine gateway to kindness.
Swaying opens a space for ambiguity, challenging the need for rigid, straight lines and embracing fluidity.
Swaying is a conversation between the binaries of right and left.
Swaying finds balance in the in-between, embodying injustices, disabilities, and brokenness.
Title: LANDSCAPE YOU
Duration: 2:44 min
Artist: Berg Duo (se)
The video work LANDSCAPE YOU by BERG DUO is made available via a QR-code at the exhibition OUTLANDISH at Asylum Chapel.
The work LANDSCAPE YOU is an adaption of SCULPTURE YOU walking score presented for “The Sky Is Moving Sideways”. Below video still from SCULPTURE YOU as perform in The Orange Gardens, Rome, Italy August 2024.
BERG DUO
Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg form Berg Duo. Their joint focus is on artistic research, particularly exploring walking as an art form and practice, alongside lens-based and embodied works at the intersection of screendance, video essays, and video installations. Recurring critical inquiries in their work include proximity, movement, and space. Becoming is central to their artistic research process, which engages with themes of care, proximity, and responsibility. They work at the intersection of walking, lens-based and embodied art practices, and theoretical inquiry. Berg Duo – Ami Skånberg and Anna Viola Hallberg – are based in Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden, with a Fellowship studio at Björkö through BKN. >>>
Artists in OUTLANDISH:
Helen Billinghurst
Rebekah Dean
BERG DUO
Justine Hounam
Julia Maddison
Blandine Martin
Laura Moreton-Griffiths
Sarah Pager
Mandy Prowse
Jane Woollatt
Asylum Chapel
Asylum Chapel, Asylum Road, London SE15 2SQ
Tues 29 April – Fri 02 May, 12-5 pm Wed 30 April 12-4 pm (2025)
For more on the exhibition in social media @theskyismovingsideways @rebekahdean.1
CURATOR ON OUTLANDISH
“A group exhibition of women artists exploring notions of landscape All the ephemeral artworks in this exhibition were originally created to appear in the outside landscape, as part of the Sculpture Trail ‘The Sky is Moving Sideways’, @theskyismovingsideways funded by The Arts Council England in 2024. As the Trail was coming to a close, and the artworks were being returned to the artist’s studios, I found myself asking the question, what would an inside exhibition of these ephemeral objects look like? The more I considered this question, the more I realised that what I was really thinking about was the notion of landscape, and the sacredness of landscape. Something that’s immense and boundless, bigger than us, yet also something that we carry within us. What is landscape? The artists have been invited to deconstruct their original trail artworks for an exhibition within the context of a sacred space; to present new artworks from the deconstruction, as a method for thinking and discussing notions on landscape.” Rebekah Dean, curator
Below official exhibition poster for OUTLANDISH
