Just before Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria, the Danube changes in character: flowing out of the Alpine foothills into the Vienna Basin, it becomes wider, shallower, and sandier—but also more gentle. The region has been settled since the Neolithic Age, and since Roman
times, the Danube has served as a transport and trade route. Both a habitat and a hazard zone, the landscape to this day is characterized by floodplains, islands, dead arms, and gravel banks. On one of those gravel banks, at river kilometer 1943.9, a performance
by dancer and choreographer Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir took place one day in August 2024 at dusk, shortly before nightfall. Artist Sofie Thorsen, whose work is about spatial structures, perception, and historical contexts, provided the performer with white-painted abstract aluminum sculptures and documented the performance on video. Gunnlaugsdóttir moved the white objects in front of the camera to capture the last light reflecting from the sky and water just after sunset. The few minutes of video show the transition from day to night. For the calendar, this moment has been segmented into twelve monthly images. The result is a series that reveals different aspects of light, movement, and landscape. Sofie Thorsen’s work invites concentration in the perception of nature and history—conveying a sense of mindfulness and precision. In the video, but even more so in the stills of the calendar pages, you can see how the three-dimensional objects transform into peculiarly shaped canvases. Landscape becomes a stage on which energy is reflected in shapes of abstraction.