Still image, Waves, 2009

Quote by Stine Lundberg Hansen from

The Wave, the Sand, the Horizon.

Published 2023-07-01, work by: Jeannette Ehlers, Jessie Kleemann & Pia Arke.

"The wave is not blue like in Denmark's national anthem, where the beech tree reflects its top in the blue wave, but black like pollution or an oil spill that won't release its grip. It comes from a sea that doesn't forget, but constantly washes the dead and the living ashore. Its roar whispers of injustices and of the displaced; of those who once had a name, but today we only know them by number. The wave whispers the names left behind by history books. The names upon which kings, nobility, and bourgeois built their land and empire; the slaves, the colonies, but also the farmers, the workers, the subsistence-less, those who did not own land. The wave does not only whisper of the past, it whispers of the graveyard in the Mediterranean today, it whispers of class, gender, race, and inequality, it whispers of container ships, outsourcing, and cheap labor."