“Gargoyle” (2023) is a site-specific piece made for the passage Ramsherred 18 og 16A-Ba in
Aabenraa, Denmark.
The work utilizes the architecture and materials of the site by modifying two exiting downpipes on
each housewall. Both downpipes are led into the passage and out from the walls, where they make a
series of bends and twists before being led back to the house wall and into the sewer. In the evening
when darkess falls, a spotlight is turned on to illuminate the construction from below and the
seemingly illogical and absurd pipe routing casts a precise shadow of the iconic horror image of
Nosferatu walking up a staircase - known from the movie “Nosferatu” by Friedrich Wilhelm
Murnau from 1922
Because the figure is folded into downpipes, the creepiness is punctured - yet reminds us, how our
imagination begins to see and hear things that aren´t there as we move through dark passages in the
dark
“A gargoyle is a carved stone figure, often grotesque, used in architecture, typically as a water
spout to direct rainwater away from a building. It is usually designed to look like a monster or
mythical creature, and historically, it was believed to ward off evil spirits”
