Oslo's Memory Wound is Everywhere!

The winner of the Oslo’s July 22 Memorial competition has been announced as Jonas Dahlberg.

The three-and-a-half-meter wide “wound” within the landscape is a slice through the top of the headland at the Sørbråten site where 69 people were shot and killed by right-wing nut job Anders Behring Breivik. Swedish artist described how his concept for the Memorial Sørbråten was to cut a wound within nature itself, representing the physical experience of taking away, "reflecting the abrupt and permanent loss of those who died”.

The interior sinks to below the water line and extends to each side. The visitors will be led through a forested pathway, on a “contemplative journey” that will ultimately lead them underground to the edge of the 'cut' and unable to continue to Utøya’s headland. The void will reveal an untouchable stone wall that frames inscriptions of each victim’s name.

Brutal. I think it's very similar to, but no less striking than, the WWII bunker that was cut in half by RAAAF Studio and Atelier de Lyon in the Netherlands 2010. You want watch a video all about it here.