‘And We Are Everywhere’ was an ambitious new artwork by Nathan Coley located on Lund Cathedral’s land in Brunnshög.

Sited within a rural landscape, the sculpture addressed fundamental issues at stake in both the Church’s development and 21st century life: the ways in which faith and belief systems become manifest; the role of the Church; and the drive for humanity to find a place in the world. It was a bold and poetic contribution to the narrative, which begged a series of questions: Who has made this? Is it a church? With whose authority has it been built?

The character of the work was temporary, ramshackle and seemingly unauthored. In direct contrast to Lund Cathedral, it took the form of a hastily made place of worship that had no official status and could be easily destroyed. However, the attention to detail and evident care with which it had been constructed referenced basic human actions, humility and the art of ‘making-do’.

The title forced us to ask ‘Who is ‘we’?’ Is it the Church, humankind, or people with no homeland? The ‘everywhere’ evoked a spatial relationship to the land which could encompass Brunnshög, Lund, Sweden, the world. While being inherently linked to the soil upon which it sat, the sculpture spoke to a universal audience.

Fabrication by Fred Duthy, Alex Garthwaite, Charlie Davidson, Marco Di Carlo and Ed Menton