By capturing sound and images of places normally off-limits or inaccessible to most people – Icelandic geysers, desert sands, melting icebergs, deserted ruins, and even the human inner ear – Kirkegaard makes the energy of the places tangible, prompting us to recapture the world.

Since 2005, Kirkegaard’s work has been shown internationally, primarily in Europe and North America, and his best-known work Aion (2006), recorded inside the off-limits area of Chernobyl, presented in numerous exhibitions including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In Japan, his sound and video installation Sabulation (2010), capturing the “singing sands” in the desert of Oman, was featured at the Aichi Triennale 2010.

As a sequel to Aion, his new sound and video installation Stigma (2014), created specially for this show, takes the natural landscape of Fukushima as its theme. Inspired by hanging scroll landscape paintings, Kirkegaard fills a vertical screen some five meters high with scenes of natural settings. Although idyllic, the images, together with sounds, vibrations of the places and our memories of “Fukushima,” would shake the perception of nature we embrace.