Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor & Louise Bourgeois @dailyicon.net Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century. TheSteilneset Memorial in Vardø comprises two structures, one conceived entirely by Zumthorand a second housing an installation by the late Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)…. …The installation by Bourgeois, entitled The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved, occupies the smoked-glass-clad second structure. A circle of mirrors within surround and reflect a flaming steel chair inside a hollow concrete cone.

Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor & Louise Bourgeois @dailyicon.net

Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century. TheSteilneset Memorial in Vardø comprises two structures, one conceived entirely by Zumthorand a second housing an installation by the late Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)….

…The installation by Bourgeois, entitled The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved, occupies the smoked-glass-clad second structure. A circle of mirrors within surround and reflect a flaming steel chair inside a hollow concrete cone.

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