Ane Lykke

Rigshopitalet & panum

Public space

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Underneath one of Copenhagen’s very busiest roads, runs an underground tunnel linking up the National Hospital and The Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen. The tunnel is used by staff who travel on foot or on push scooters between the hospital and the research institute. Based on the site-specific installation "Curbing the Sense of Endlessness," the passage is transformed into a sensual meeting between user and space. The integrated installation consisting of upright steel pipes rising out of the floor. The steel pipes are placed in a grid structure.The overall effect makes it look as if the system oscillates between the open and the enclosed – between stringent, well-ordered lines and impenetrable chaos – as you pass it by. The colours helps accentuate our perception of the grid system’s alternation between dissolution and cohesion. A deep, intense experience of a single colour, while also experiencing more colours simultaneously. Depending on position and speed of movement, different colours will appear, dissolve, and coalesce to form new parts and wholes.