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Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake

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Earth, Soil, and Stone

11. 04. 2025

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“Earth, Soil, and Stone” is a two-channel​ video installation.




It shows a 3D model of a mound of chalk found in Dannemare, Lolland, where the Gloslunde Refugee Asylum Center was once located. This was the first site we documented at the beginning of our process of mapping the 89 Refugee Asylum Centers and Emergency Aid Centers that have been closed since 2018. The coordinates of all these locations are written in chalk on a surface where the spinning mound of the Gloslunde Refugee Asylum Center is projected.


This video shows the remains of the Gloslunde Refugee Asylum Center—or rather, its complete erasure and replacement. We were confronted with a material: chalk, commonly used as a fertilizer for farmland soil, shaped into a form resembling a mountain.
The form of a mountain—the highest point in the landscape of this location—has subsequently informed the shape of the remaining 3D models. By calling in these mountains as our witnesses, this project becomes a conversation about preservation: what gets preserved, and what does not.


Within the form of a mountain, we attempt to listen to the silence of the journeys endured by the former residents of the Refugee Asylum Centers. We listen to their navigation of bureaucratic systems, and to the erasure of the material evidence and histories that these locations once held.



The work is a part of the IN THE PAST WE MADE HISTORY, Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich in collaboration with Anastasija ( Nastija) Kiake, is on show 18/1-27/4 2025 at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen.