The big light sculpture Morild (Phosphorescence) by Astrid Krogh is named after one of nature’s most spectacular light phenomena, caused by the glowing algae beneath the surface of the sea. The artist has reinterpreted this universal natural phenomenon, adapting it into an emotional wall installation of ever changing light. In a slow and subtle manner, Morild is constantly metamorphosing itself, alluding to the endlessly changing patterns of nature, chaotic and organized at the same time.

Astrid Krogh is considered as one of the pioneering artists in the field of optic fiber installations, starting by the end of the 1990s with monumental light weavings for important museum exhibitions and site-specific commissions such as the Maersk building and the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, the 21 C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation in Cincinnati and the Longchamp Flagship in Paris. In 2006, 2009 and 2011 she received the Danish Art Foundation Prize. She won the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal in 2008 and received the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize in 2013.

Astrid Krogh embraces traditional craft techniques while using high tech materials. Morild is made of optic fibers protruding a perforated wooden box. In other works, she hand weaves lengths of optic strands on a loom to make iridescent tapestries that illuminate into a rainbow of brilliant colors. The fibers in the tapestries are connected to monitors that regulate the color palette, and slowly and hypnotically move the color throughout the piece. In this way, Astrid succeeds in giving light a rare soft and tactile quality, proposing a highly original and poetic vocabulary in the field of light installations, based on sensual color experience and contemplative perception.