Fredrik Zanichelli (b. 1995, Malmö SE) Zanichelli approaches the tension between architecture and nature, using
Almhöjden at Skogskyrkogården as his starting point. The site was created by Sigurd Lewerentz in 1935 based on the
Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich’s Hill and Ploughed Field near Dresden from 1825. Today, the surface of the
painting is covered with cracks, and perhaps it has been for a long time. Perhaps Lewerentz saw how the painting,
already over a hundred years old at the time, had begun to crack and concluded that it was in immediate danger.
Perhaps it was the cracks that turned the motif into a physical landscape. When Zanichelli approaches our built
environment and its materialities, he does so with a poetic eye, where cracks are not only signs of decay but also of
beauty. Something that can expose the forgotten, something that can force us to deconstruct and renegotiate what
we take for granted. The difference between nature and culture is that culture inevitably cracks – and in these
ruptures new landscapes, new narratives are born. The rift becomes the place where that which lies beyond reality
grows.