Black and brown braids grow out of the walls of the room, just like on the façade of Charlottenborg. The braids were made by Afro-Danish hairdressers and at braiding workshops for BIPOCs held in April with the aim of embodying and sharing traditions about Black hair and its history.

Ehlers often incorporates ghosts in her video works as symbols of the history that is ever-present, but which we never widely speak about. By letting Black braids penetrate the building, she suggests that hidden stories still affect our worldview today. The braids growing out of the building represent an effort to open our eyes and inject greater nuance to our outlook, prompting us to include ‘minority narratives’ in the big narratives. An insistence that many different narratives can coexist.

The work was commissioned by Kunsthal Charlottenborg for the solo exhibition Archives In The Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms co-curated by Awa Konaté and Lotte Løvholm.