WAAITT has realized a permanent art installation consisting of 14 photographs for the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

With a focus on diversity across the world’s oceans, WAAITT has brought together artists from Japan, Lebanon, China, Serbia, Korea, Ukraine, Greenland and Bahrain, who have contributed with works that both express and represents fragments of various places on earth and at the same time opens up a transcultural perspective by meeting around the water we are all surrounded by.

Included artists: Ali Al Shehabi (1994, BH), Genia Volkov (1981, UA – FR), Jukke Rosing (1984, GL – DK), Julia Kaydala (2001, RU – RS), Lin Zhipeng (1979, CN), Luo Yang (1984, CN), Maya Akashika (1985, JP), Mohamad Abdouni (1989, LB), Seunggu Kim (1979, KR), Yuta Fuchikami (1987, JP).

Together, the artists’ contributions form a selection of works that is characterized by diversity, has a contemporary scope, creates contexts for the institute’s research areas and possesses a forward-looking perspective that will be relevant and contribute to curiosity, reflection and dialogue among the lunch room’s users for many years to come.

We facilitated the art commission from A-Z

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