FORSIDE
The good Heidi with the dog Ganja, who looks after me, is tattooed on the left arm. On the right arm is the devilish Heidi, who loves partying in the street, drugs and fast cars Format 7.70 x 5.38 m

The maria project - 2022

Publication

The publication is part of my contribution to The Maria Project curated by Matthias Borello. Based at Maria Church in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, the project aims to create social and ethical models for dialogue, gatherings and society at large by exploring the space provided and created by the church and visual arts. 

The publication includes a series of narrative and visual representations of different locations of the church neighbourhood. These include a shelter for the homeless, a fix room for drug users, a centre for women sex workers, a local clinic for the homeless, and the church’s own drop-in centre and weekly soup kitchen.

I have been in close dialogue with the users and staff of each place in order to portray their lives, listening to the personal experiences and stories that form the core of the publication.

The book was made in close collaboration Rud Ellegaard, a police officer who has been on the beat in Vesterbro for 40 years. He contributed with a series of diary entries for the publication, which was co-edited by Lise Grüner Bertelsen.

In connection with the Publikationen Maria Project, I installed a banner 7.70 x 5.38 m on the H 17 building by Heidi on the meat square. 

the text on the banner:

“The good Heidi with the dog Ganja, who looks after me, is tattooed on the left arm.  On the right arm is the devilish Heidi, who loves partying in the street, drugs and fast cars”