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Terra Incognita -
Trondheims Memorial for July 22

Completed in 2016
Tordenskioldsparken, central Trondheim, Norway
In collaboration with Architect Marianne Levinsen

Sketches and model have been acquired by
Skissernas Museum in Lund, included in the
permanent exhibition Memory and Monument.

See article in Landskab hereThe terrorist attack in Oslo and on Utøya on July 22, 2011, created a deep rupture in our perception of reality – a tragedy for many individuals and a trauma for the entire society. A new and unfamiliar situation that we unavoidably are forced to deal with. An uknown territory suddenly revealed itself in the midst of our lives, in our shared social and political everyday.  On old maps, unknown territories are referred to as Terra Incognita –unknown land – and are marked as blank white spaces.

White gravel made from norwegian marble cover the ground. A horisontal, organic topography in white in-situ cast concrete forms 7 islands spread out across the area. A round shallow water-basin with 77 lights.

Sandblasted into the surfaces of the concrete islands are texts that relate to the political, social and ethical values that also were attacked on July 22, 2011: Openness, respect, democracy, empathy, humanity, belief in the future, love. The texts serve as references to July 22, but also functions as mental bridges to a poetic, literary and creative dimension of reality, which can give hope and belief in the future for current and coming generations. Some of the texts are written by school children in Trondheim, other by known poets. The texts also have a purely aesthetic function as graphic ornaments, and contribute to the experience of the concrete islands as torn out and scattered pages of a book, where both everyday and existential thoughts and feelings connected to July 22 are given spatial and physical form in public space.

Excerpt from the project description
Levinsen & Krüger





Terra Incognita – Trondheims Memorial after July 22, 2016
See article in Landskab here