CHIMAN DANGI visual artist

 The Divine Vision

Site specific Installation Art By Chiman Dangi

Residency Period: 15 September 2024 – 15 October 2024

 Location: Land Art Museum, Hestøya, 7818 Lund, Norway 

As visitors walk the forested path, they arrive at a clearing—a quiet threshold—where The Divine Vision stands, a stone stele encircled by hand-built dry stack walls. Shaped as a trapezoidal prism, these walls are composed of stones sourced from Hestøya Island itself. They echo across continents, symbolically linking this land in Norway with Khejarli, India—sites bound by a shared reverence for nature and resistance to its destruction.

Along the path, eyes—simple, two-dimensional forms once used by ancient cultures to observe the world—are etched into stones. But here, these carved eyes reverse the gaze: nature watches us. Embedded both in the approach and within the stele itself, they are a solemn reminder that the Earth is bearing witness, questioning whether humanity will uphold its duty to protect and sustain the resources that sustain us in return.

Though built solely from organic materials, the walls surrounding The Divine Vision represent the psychological and societal barriers we construct to distance ourselves from the natural world. The installation calls attention to this illusion of separation—challenging the belief that we have risen above the ecological web to which we still belong.

In this sacred space, one is invited to pause, reflect, and remember the fragility of nature’s bounty. The stillness becomes a prayer—linking Hestøya in 2024 with Khejarli in 1730, where 363 lives were given to protect the sacred Khejri trees. Just as that sacrifice planted the seed of the global environmental movement, this stele offers continuity: a temple to the Earth, across time and geography.

Two places. One vision. Eternal vigilance. https://www.artworldnow.com/2024/10/interview-renata-maiblum-tells-us-about.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com     land art