Artist:

Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen).

Description:

A faithful 1:1 mock-up of a corner of Le Corbusier’s 1927 Villa Savoye, submerged in Vejle Fjord. Conceived for the Floating Art Festival, Vejle Art Museum, Denmark.

“Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s appropriation of the Villa Savoye alights with the sunken dreams of Le Corbusier and — to a broader extent — other symbols of rational and regimented social orders. The artist’s desire to reconstitute our political institutions is itself a projection, a reaction to seeing the French architect’s legacy under attack by way of global disarray.”—Hyperallergic