Recording of a Greenhouse
(Planthuset), Greenhouse joists, bolts, 150 x 150 x 200 cm, 2015.
(Formeringshuset), Greenhouse joists, bolts, 200 x 200 x 280 cm, 2015.
(Stolpahuset), Greenhouse joists, bolts, 150 x 150 x 100 cm, 2015.
(Vinkastet), Greenhouse joists, bolts, 200 x 200 x 100 cm, 2015.
(Göstahuset), Greenhouse joists, bolts, 150 x 120 x 140 cm, 2015.
Text: Im Treibhaus by Mathilde Wesendonck, 1885.

When inside the greenhouses as a child, I often glanced at the ceilings. A recurring image was how the ventilation hatches by the roof ridge of the greenhouses would accidentally close, glass shattering and raining down. 

”Recording of a Greenhouse” is building parts from the roof sections of the greenhouses, which I have depicted with materials from discarded greenhouses. The titles indicate which greenhouse the construction is retrieved from. The names have their own stories.

The works are accompanied by the poem Im Treibhaus - a poem by Mathilde Wesendonck, which Richard Wagner set to music in the song cycle Wesendonck-Lieder.

In the greenhouse

High-arching leafy crowns,
Canopies of emerald,
You children who dwell in distant climes,
Tell me, why do you lament?

Silently you bend your branches,
Inscribe your symbols on the air,
And a sweet fragrance rises,
As silent witness to you sorrows.

With longing and desire
You open wide your arms,
And embrace in your delusion
Desolation's awful void.

I am well aware, poor plant;
We both share a single fate,
Though bathed in gleaming light,
Our homeland is not here!

It grows quiet, a whirring whisper
Fills the dark room uneasily:
I see heavy droplets hanging
From the green edge of the leaves.