Camilla Berner: You are Yourself a Sequoia

You walk into a glasshouse from 1921 and find a trunk weighing tonnes, cut from a giant sequoia that has died, lying across it. The work is interactive: the museum says you help bring the fallen giant back to life, and its photos show water spraying over the dark bark, with small ferns growing out of it.

A giant sequoia once stood in Ordrupgaard's park, and two grew at the gate of the kitchen garden in Berner's childhood home on Funen, where she patted the bark for its dull sound. Her catalogue of 17 notes runs from the Sierra Nevada to Carl Bloch, the Funen forester who brought the first sequoia to Denmark in 1866, to the beetles and fires killing the trees now. One note admits the Mac she wrote them on runs macOS Sequoia.

It's a single work in one room, near Finn Juhl's House at the eastern end of the park. It closes on 18 October, and the catalogue is free to read on the museum's website.