Campana brothers bring "nature indoors" with bristly installation
Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have created an indoor "forest" of flax and wood at the Bildmuseet in Umeå – their first project in Sweden (+ slideshow).
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The Campana brothers' site-specific Woods installation inside the Swedish contemporary arts museum comprises thick angled strands of textured materials sourced from the local countryside.
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"We found the inspiration in nature," said Humberto Campana in a statement. "The message we wanted to generate was bringing nature indoors. The forest taking its place back and turning tables."
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Strips of wood and flax are shaped into shaggy forms that reach up to the ceiling. Visitors to the museum can walk around and in between the vertical elements.
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The São Paulo duo, best known for creating unusual furniture pieces from everyday objects and materials, gathered the lengths into bunches and attached them to strings so they hang downward.
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The bristly tree-like elements become thinner as they reach the ceiling and are angled to pass across each other.
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Some sections stem from others like tree branches, creating more complex structures that tower above visitors walking through the space.
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Housed in a white room within the Bildmuseet, the installation creates a setting designed to look like a surreal woodland. Woods opened on 2 November and runs until 8 February 2015.
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Earlier this year the Campana brothers paid tribute to their "mentor" Massimo Morozzi in an interview with Dezeen during Clerkenwell Design Week in May.
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"He had the capacity to understand design," said Humberto Campana. "Design is not just about functionality: it's about concepts, getting a reaction, not following trends, following your own heart. That's something that I learned from him."
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Earlier this year, architect David Chipperfield revealed another indoor forest installation at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin – its last exhibition before a major renovation project.
Photography is by Mikael Lundgren, courtesy of Bildmuseet and Estudio Campana.