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.
Their contribution to Bringing In The Tide is a three‑part physical installation at Blåvand Beach that engages with the scale of the landscape and our perception, embodied experience, memory, and representation of it. The installation stages vision loss as an active experience, mirrors the tidal cycle of emergence and withdrawal, and reflects on the hidden, gradual erasure of the landscape caused by climate change.
At once functional and enigmatic, the work evokes elements reminiscent of the marine industry or the military, as well as technological measuring instruments or cosmic mechanisms. It hovers between nature and construction, between the archaic and the synthetic, between the ephemeral and the enduring, between the soft and the hard.
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).