LANDSLEG x Nordic House - exhibition “Membrane: Myths & Fictions of Soil”
Site specific installation
Wood and turf
June - August 2026
Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Landsleg explores embodied relations between the human body and the land. Drawing on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Guðbjörg Johannesdóttir’s work on embodied knowledge, the project takes its point of departure in the Icelandic word landsleg—an archaic term for landscape that also echoes leg, meaning womb or resting place (legstaður). Installed within the Icelandic terrain, the work takes the form of a concave, bowl-like shelter set into the ground. Formed through coiled layers of turf, moss, and plant matter, it creates a soft, vegetal enclosure that visitors can enter, lie in, or inhabit temporarily. Landsleg holds the body, bringing it into direct contact with the soil, opening a sensory space where connection to the land unfolds through touch, weight, and immersion.
- Thomas Pausz