SKY & SEA

Brønshøj Water Tower will one day in the future be a cultural venue for sound, water and light art or just a water experimentarium. Ib Lunding’s architectural masterpiece from 1930 is as fascinating as the water it transported not so long ago. Water is our most precious resource. It shapes, sustains and influences our lives. Sky & Sea is the first exhibition in the triptych Tales of Water in Brønshøj Water Tower. Here, curator Lawrence Ebelle wants to put thoughts about our water and our environment up for debate.

Textile designer and artist Iben Høj has been given free rein to unfold her knitted, spatial statements in the architectural framework of the water tower. Høj, who is inspired by nature in her artistic practice, invites the audience into a poetic space of contemplation between sky and sea. With meter-long, delicate colored threads, she knits a work that undulates like meanders between beams and columns in the former water cathedral. The delicate banners act as metaphorical reminders of the ambiguous nature of water; both powerful and fragile.
The columns of the water tower stretch towards the sky, while Høj’s work unfolds horizontally, undulating like the surface of the sea. The tension between the two planes invites the audience to experience the many angles of the space as they move around between the columns and under the knitted sky. Colours, threads and motifs invite a play with appearances and spaces in a moment of reflection on the meeting between human, sea and sky and what is at stake if we do not protect our most important resource.