The two artists Melodi Soltani and Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo explore what it means to feel far away from one's home and experience a generational, geographical, and cultural displacement.
With the smartphone as technological testimony to longing and attempts of connection, Melodi Soltani and Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo's artwork 'Call Center for the Displaced' becomes part of Gloria’s foyer. Here, it projects, protects, and preserves the shared experience of what they call a new tribe of second-generation diasporic descendants.
The artists invite you to sit in Gloria’s foyer and listen to the soundscape on smartphones. Engulfed by the sounds from around the world, you can collectively feel relief, investigate or cultivate the loss, and get in touch with others who are longing for 'home'.
'Call Center for the Displaced' has been developed for Roskilde Festival and is made in collaboration with Banaan Al-Nasser's installation 'In Memory of Home', unifying the joint notions of home and coexistence.
'Call Center for the Displaced' has previously been part of the exhibition 'Mapping the Displaced' at the art center Gammel Strand (at their exhibition space for young artists ‘All all all’) in 2022.
Musician and artist Melodi Soltani released her debut EP, Mellow D, in 2023 under her Melodi Ghazal moniker.
The award-winning writer and artist Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo published the critically acclaimed anthology 'Hjertet er en fold med heste' in 2022 and the novel 'Du er min arv' in 2023, for which she received the Grimsrud Memorial Prize.
Both artists are based in Copenhagen.