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We’re excited about welcoming you to the “Untold Stories, Given – A Collaborative Practice of Sharing” finissage talk of In the Past We Made History by Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich in collaboration with Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake.

The event will be moderated by Mette Sandbye, professor in photography studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, and will consist of a conversation between Abood* and Sahl*, Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich, and a screening of a video work that is currently in the process of production.

5-5.25 pm Film Screening and a conversation with Abood* and Sahl*

The talk takes its point of departure from a video work currently in progress by artists Tina Enghoff, Kent Klich, and Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake. Excerpts from the work will be shown during the talk. The piece is created in collaboration with Abood, a poet and artist with refugee experience, and his son Sahl, a student at Roskilde University who also shares this background. The work portrays Abood reading his poetry in Arabic, while Sahl attempts to translate his father's writings into English. The project explores the significance of language, translation, and the memories of other times and places — like a choir of ancestral experiences intertwined with recollections of the present and recent past.

5.30-5.45 pm Workshops and collaborative processes As part of the exhibition, Fotografisk Center was collaborating with NørreBrobyggerne and freelance curator Pauline Koffi Vandet on a series of workshops designed and facilitated for young people. Inspired by the exhibition, participants created their own works reflecting the tapestries of their daily lives, which were/are displayed at Fotografisk Center during the exhibition period. Additionally, new workshops will be organized for individuals with refugee experience in Sweden and Norway. These initiatives are connected to the upcoming presentations of the exhibition In the Past We Made History, which will be shown at Havremagasinet in Boden Art Hall, Sweden, and at Skien Art Hall, Norway. Conversation with Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich

5.45-6.45 pm Following the presentation, there will be a conversation with Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich. They will discuss the process behind the exhibition and the future of the archive In the Past We Made History, with a particular focus on collaboration as an artistic and research practice.

The talk will be held in a mix of Arabic and English.

* As some of the People/Danes with refugee experience have asked for ​their last name to be omitted, it has been made a collective decision valid for everyone with refugee experience.