"Tent"

The Akerselva River in Oslo has traditionally represented both a physical and financial demarcation for the city; with immigrants moving to the Eastern side rather than the more prosperous West side.
This artwork consists of a refugee tent straddling a bridge across the Akerselva. The Western facing side bears the internationally recognized symbol of the aid agency the Red Cross. On the Eastern side, the refugee tent has a red crescent moon, which was adopted as the symbol for the aid agency in the Ottoman Empire in 1876, on the grounds that a red cross was offensive to Muslims, and is now recognized by many other countries.
As well as encapsulating the East/West divide, the location of the Tent symbolizes the worldwide humanitarian problem of water pollution, as industry waste made the Akerselva too contaminated to use.
Inside the tent, semi-transparent bed sheets obscure hanging dolls, visible only as indistinct shapes through violent-looking slits in the fabric.

Materials used: Tent, Dolls, Bed sheets.
Installation was part of NORAD'S "Bistandskonferansen" 2004.