The Danish-Palestinian-Jordanian artist Banaan Al-Nasser transforms Gloria’s Foyer's interior and exterior into a place for contemplation and reflection amid Roskilde Festival's abundance of sensory impressions.
In Banaan Al-Nasser's work 'In Memory of Home', which has been created specifically for Roskilde Festival, nostalgia, memories, and feelings of home are evoked and the question is asked whether it is only in a utopia that it is possible to find human equality.
The artist often works with everyday objects loaded with symbolic values that have a clear social, poetic, and political character across different national borders, class divisions, and cultures. 'In Memory of Home' specifically draws on the artist's own childhood home and upbringing, where the satellite dishes became a symbol of communication between the West and the Middle East.
The artwork consists of monochrome surfaces, satellite dishes, sawdust wallpaper, wires, still photos from abandoned apartment complexes, and a Persian carpet acting as a meeting place and constituting a mosaic that establishes encounters between people and cultures.
In 2018, Banaan Al-Nasser graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with the work 'Bab Al-Hara (parabolas)'. Today, the work is part of the permanent exhibition at AROS - Aarhus Art Museum.
'In Memory of Home' is presented at the festival in collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen as part of Residency To Go 2024.
The project is created in collaboration with OpEN – Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Public Engagement Funding Pool.