The artist duo AVPD's work Scaled Objects dramatizes the loss of sight of the Wadden Sea landscape and comments on climate change's hidden, slow erosion of the landscape.
The work is a three-part physical installation on Blåvand Beach that interacts with the scale of the landscape and influences the way we see, physically experience, re-member, and depict the Wadden Sea landscape. The installation's exploration of loss of sight mirrors the eternal cycle of the tides as the water appears and recedes across the mudflats.
The work is at once functional and enigmatic - like concrete elements from the marine industry or the military, like technological measuring instruments or cosmic timepieces. It hovers between nature and construction, between the archaic and the synthetic, between the ephemeral and the enduring, between the soft and the hard.
The artist collective AVPD is interested in how space, light, time, and movement shape our perception and experience of the world. In their practice, they work with installations and spatial situations, exploring perception at the intersection of visual art and architecture, where the viewer becomes an active participant. AVPD focuses on art as something that is experienced bodily and situationally, rather than as an object that is merely observed.
BIO
AVPD is an award‑winning artist duo consisting of Aslak Vibæk (b. 1974, Denmark) and Peter Døssing (b. 1974, Denmark). The duo lives and works in Copenhagen and has collaborated since 1997. Their practice is characterised by a strong engagement with context and space, often developed in close collaboration with architects and landscape architects. AVPD exhibits both nationally and internationally, at museum institutions as well as in public space, including a wide range of site‑integrated works: Håndværkskollegiet at Musicon (2023–2027), Aalborg University, Faculty of Health Sciences, the Danish Building and Property Agency (2017–2025), Kemitorvet, DTU Campus, Kongens Lyngby (2023–2024), and Skagen Skipperskole (2013).