Per Kristian Nygård crams a grassy valley into an Oslo gallery

Smaller hills rose and fell around a row of narrow windows, so as not to block the sunlight from the space. The artist told Dezeen the work was «seemingly meaningless and confusing – as a contrast to the all-encompassing meaningful and personalised we surround ourselves with, for example the programmed urban environment, the functional objects and architecture». The undulations in the terrain were constructed with a wooden framework, overlaid with plastic sheeting and a thick layer of soil impregnated with grass seed. Related story: Olafur Eliasson fills modern art museum with «giant landscape» of rocksThe Trondheim-based installation artist – whose work explores the limitations and possibilities of space – constructed the unlikely landscape as an antithesis   to the organised architectural environment. The edges of the work creeped out onto the dark grey floor of the reception area, as if inviting gallery visitors in for a hike across the miniature landscape. «Visitors are confronted with their own intuitive and physical response to the experience of entering a space where everything’s wrong but feels right,» he said. The grass seed sprouted in the damp soil over the duration of the exhibition, and the lawn was tended and watered daily to create a moist growing environment. The piece, which appeared as if an oversized lump of turf had been crammed into a tiny room, was on show during August. Photography is by Jason Olav Benjamin Havneraas.