

The work is a continuation from last year's festival, adding to a collection of ceramic pieces, filling in and repairing cracks in the pavement of Hamraborg and its surrounding area. The repairs serve as a reminder that there is no cure, but that the repair itself is an acknowledgment of the wound, which carries with it the responsibility to care for the damage.
Drawing inspiration from Kintsugi as well as the words of decolonial theorist and artist Maria Thereza Alves ; "we could deploy the idea of repair as being more than a transitory fix. For it also acknowledges the impossibility of ever returning to a previous state, ... . The world remains broken. Its reassembled fragments lead to something more complex than the lost ‘original’. ... . There is no cure. Instead, we acknowledge a wound, and a cut is conceded. It leads to the critical responsibility of caring for the damage.”
Maybe the question now isn’t how to repair the damage, but rather how to care for the cracks that remain?