Opening: Mapping the displaced

All all all presents the exhibition 'Mapping the Displaced' by Danish/Chilean author and artist Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo along with 'Call Center', an artistic alliance with Iranian musician Melodi Soltani. The exhibition is the second in a series of five media-based exhibitions and it explores language and translation from a diasporic perspective.

4. November - 17. december 2022
Vernissage: 4. Nov, 17:00 -
Læderstræde 15

Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo will take over Læderstræde 15 with a 20 meters long canvas runner, covered in colorful pictures made in different fabrics. The runner will drape the walls and hang from the ceilings from room to room like a storyline. When the exhibition opens it will carry a few pictures, and throughout the project’s opening period new pictures will be sewn on slowly filling the storyline out. 'Mapping the Displaced' is a personal and collective investigation into home sickness, culture and feelings of division. Of non-Western wars and military coups, often caused by the West and the consequences they have through decades, generations and in many parts of the world.

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The pictures on Welden Gajardo’s runner are fragments the artist uses to piece together her own history, inspired by arpilleras – a Chilean craft tradition that sews forth a new history. Arpilleras were first invented during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in 70ies Chile and worked as a way of breaking censorship. Since, it has become a tradition that typically women in the poorer cities uphold, selling to tourists to make money. Like in Welden Gajardo’s growing runner, these story cloths show simple, everyday scenes inhabited by symbols of political violence and oppression. The Scenes on her runner are from her coming novel that will be published on Gads publishing house in the spring of 2023.

Welden Gajardo has invited Iranian musician Melodi ‘Ghazal’ Soltani to take over a room in All all all with the work 'Call Center for the Displaced'. With this work they transform a broom cabinet behind All all all’s archive into a call center targeted towards people in Denmark who have family outside of the West. Here people with homesickness can book a timeslot at odd hours of the day and use the space’s facilities – chargers, Ipad, comfortable chairs - while they reach out to their loved ones in peace. When the call center is not being used it will be open to the public in the exhibition’s opening hours. Here you can experience a sound piece produced by Soltani, treating the ever-present translation and survival work that diasporic people like herself live with. The sound work is a ‘waiting tone symphony’ that plays against a dialogue between Soltani and Welden Gajardo.

With 'Mappin the Displaced' Welden Gajardo activates a work of collective healing in collaboration with Soltani. During the residency period they will invite descendants, poets and fellow artists into their rooms to use and co-create them, whereby they intend to make conditional translation work into something common. With the exhibition project they protect and maintain the common experience of what they call a new ‘tribe’ of second generation diasporic descendants.

About the artists:
Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo works with Latin American diaspora, inherited trauma and collective care-activism in her writing and artistic practice. She has a degree from Skrivekunstakademiet, Bergen. She attends the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Melodi Soltani is an Iranian, Copenhagen-based composer, producer and singer. She makes music under the name Melodi Ghazal in a musical universe where language and references flow together and create new contexts. Her work embraces ambiguities and reflects how one can belong to several - and at the same time no - places. Melodi attends the Rhytmic Music Conservatory.

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All all all is run by curator Klara Li with Nanna Saplana Thorning as administrative partner.

Graphic design by Alexis Mark

Open Sep 9th-Oct 15th 2022
Hours: Thursday-friday 13-18
Saturday 11-16
Odd opening hours will occur and be announced on instagram

The exhibition is supported by Augustinus Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond and Beckett Fonden.

For our first year program we are kindly hosted by Kunstforeningen GL STRAND.