Jakob KudskSteensen: Wetland
About This Event
Jakob KudskSteensen: Wetland is on view at MoMA Exhibitions. Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen combines 3D animation, field research and multichannel sound to build immersive installations that track ecological processes and the ways landscapes are shaped by human and nonhuman forces, favoring patient observation over spectacle and rendering nature as a lived, changing system.
About Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor (anoxic) processes taking place, especially in the soils. Wetlands form a transitional zone between waterbodies and dry lands, and are different from other terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems due to their vegetation's roots having adapted to oxygen-poor waterlogged soils. They are considered among the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as habitats to a wide range of aquatic and semi-aquatic plants and animals, with often improved water quality due to plant removal of excess nutrients such as nitrates and phosphorus.
About the Artist
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a Danish artist whose practice combines 3D animation, field research, and multichannel sound to build immersive environmental narratives. Working collaboratively, he develops installations that track ecological processes and the ways landscapes are shaped by human and nonhuman forces.