Cabin in the Woods
Nordskoven
"Cabin-in The Words" was created in connection with Anna Bak’s graduation from the Funen Art Academy, but has since been reimagined as this permanent sculpture at Deep Forest Art Land.
Now that the cabin is outside the museum’s walls and stands on its own in nature, it has taken on a new character. The beech tree sprouting through the cabin’s floor and growing out through the roof; the somewhat peculiar hunting cabin objects inside; nature has taken over the cabin. This image of a cabin in the forest, the forest in the cabin, draws our thoughts to the interaction between nature and humans. How close can we get to nature? Is this a form of fusion with nature? Or has the tree overtaken civilization’s attempt to inhabit the forest?
In the work “Cabin-in-The-Woods,” artist Anna Bak has repurposed wood from approximately 100 Euro pallets. The pallets, with their industrial purpose—literally serving as the foundation of the globalizing market—have thus returned to their origin: the forest.
Title: Cabin in the Woods
Year: 2012
The Artist
Anna Bak is a Danish visual artist. She graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 2012. She works in many different media, but primarily in sculpture and drawing. She is interested in narratives rooted in nature and in how we relate to it. In line with this, she often uses natural or relatively unprocessed materials such as wood, leather, or stone.
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