5 Art Installations for Conversation and Meditation: Enjoy!

THE WATERROOM

The Waterroom is produced is collaboration with Stichting NUTUUR. Big Article in magazine De Nieuwe Veluwe: Article De Nieuwe Veluwe – De Waterkamer / Vosbergen

Contemplatiorium Love Tree is an arc-like space that favours conversation and meditation, just like a nook that offers you safety and protection from the outside environment. Original and playful, this unique spot allows you see the sky through a rectangular opening. You can simply stand here and search for your inner peace without being distracted or you can enjoy a good conversation in the company of a friend. “The tree is a barrier, the tree is a separator, the tree is to hide behind, the tree is something other than the person across from you to focus on.” The real challenge is to overcome this (mental) obstacle and leave the fear of communicating with your companion, behind: “take out the tree and be real, take out the tree and dare to be real with another person.”

Suspended small hub in a forest

Hidden within a forestscape, dutch artist rob sweere has realized ‘the hub’ a soothing meditation chamber, which provokes an organic experience for the visitor that lies inside. Six, taught steel cables connected to nearby trees suspend the immersive red form from the surface of the earth. The person lying within can view the sky, framed by the tops of the towering trees, through a gaping mouth at the object’s crown. Openings on either side of the structure surround the interior with natural light, as well as reveal fragments of the woodsy landscape that encompasses it. Created from aluminum and polyurethane, the habitat’s therapeutic objective is characterized by its silhouette and aesthetic: a grate-like opening at its base allows air to flow inside and hovers the daydreamer just above the ground, merging the visitor and environment as one. ‘The hub’ is a permanent artwork specially designed for the sculpture garden of the kröller-müller museum in otterlo, netherlands.