GOD FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST ALLAH. GOD FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST ALLAH. AMEN

Trollhättan + Gothenburg 2018

A group of young girls stayed a long time eager to get the answer to the question if I was Christian or Muslim….

I stayed silent and with closed eyes the whole time (two hours).

Two Norwegian girls were discussing the meaning of the words and at last they shouted ”I KNOW - she wants everybody to respect everybody!!” And then they made themselves become my ”ambassadeurs” and explained the message for anyone who passed me.

I heard a besserwisser man discussing the piece by saying ”Well this girl is a student at Valand Academy of Fine Arts and then she is not religious because nobody there is really religious”

And I heard a couple passing by commenting on how very ”not Swedish” it was to sit like that.

Photos by Maria Quarfordt Brising