Year: 2025
Commissioned Public Art / Installation
EU Council, Europa Building, Brussels

Exhibition period: July 16 — Dec 31. 2025

Technique: Digital sculpting, Digital print
Material: Print on fabric, LED lightbox
Dimensions: 16 x 3 m
Photos by: EU Council + Wang & Söderström

Artistic decoration commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for EU Council Building during the Danish Presidency of the EU Council. 

In a speculative landscape, a trail of ants is carrying various findings from the technosphere. The work explores themes of collective intelligence, emergent behaviour, network systems where coordination arises through local interaction rather than hierarchy.

In ant colonies, no central figure directs the group. The queen sustains, but does not lead. A single ant can be seen as simple, they are dependent on their antennae to communicate and navigate on a local scale. Together the ants generate complex structures and behaviours—systems that evolve without a central control, a superorganism.

Just one ant needs to stray from the trail to discover new food—otherwise, the colony would return to the same spot and risk starvation. A single local shift can redirect the entire network. Through their sensitive antennae, ants build community one interaction at a time.

Positioned within a space of power, this work is both a mirror and a prompt. Can we rethink the systems we’ve built—and those we have yet to imagine? It is through empathy, not control, that we might begin to sense what comes next.