Gentle hunting, deep softness
Nordskoven
From September 2020 to December 2021, Spacegirls’ site-specific project, *Gentle Hunting, Heavy Softness*, was developed and built at Deep Forest Art Land. The three-part project consists of research and material development, the construction of a pavilion, and a dialogue in the form of a book.
Spacegirls works at the intersection of art and architecture. At the core of Spacegirls’ practice is material research focused on an understanding of place and tactility. In *Gentle Hunting, Heavy Softness*, the investigation centers on the facade as an architectural element.
Gentle Hunting, Heavy Softness is a project in constant evolution—a project in which the material and process not only take place in the forest, but are also composed of the forest itself. In producing the material, Spacegirls make use of the site’s natural raw materials, such as local ochre and sand from the site, as well as the “FutureCem” cement from Aalborg Portland.
Title: Gentle Hunting, Heavy Softness
Year: 2021
The Artist
Spacegirls is an architecture practice founded by Cisse Bomholt and Elisabeth Gellein in 2016. Over the past decade, the Danish-Norwegian duo has built a body of work that operates at the intersection of architecture, art, and research. Their projects are based on site-specific, slow, and material-exploratory methods—an intersectional feminist approach in which the scale of the built environment is small, while the time horizon and the list of collaborators are typically long. This approach has resulted in site-specific architecture with sensory and ornamental qualities and an aesthetic that blends craftsmanship with pop culture. In recent years, they have focused particularly on language as a world-shaper, exploring whether a shift in the architect’s language can also change the way we build and live.
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