When the cactus still bloomed

Installed at a public billboard installed at København Syd station and in Mads Nørgaard Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025
Part of the group exhibition Homage to older women
Curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen
Materials: Photoprint og text
Dimensions: 120 x 240 cm
Documentation by Jan Danebod, Maria Nørholm Ramouk
Supported by: The New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Beckett Foundation, the Politiken Foundation, Ernst Sune Fonden and Poul Johansen Fonden

Full participation list is to be found here.


DK
Du viste mig din fødeby mellem bjergene og fortalte, at vores familiehus stadigvæk stod.
At kaktussen i forhaven, som hver sommer gav frugt, stadigvæk blomstrede.
Vi satte os ved vandkanten, åbnede vores madpakker og spiste med fingrene. ”Solen er det vigtigste element, elli. Det eneste sted jeg har lyst til at bo, er ved havet. Vi smelter sammen”, sagde du.

Pressemeddelelse:
Vores samfund er fuld af kulturelle narrativer og forventninger til, hvad den ældre kvinde er, kan og skal. HOMMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN har derfor inviteret 100 kvindelige og minoriserede billedkunstnere fra Skandinavien til at udtrykke deres personlige tanker om den ældre kvinde og denne livsfase. Individuelle værker, der alle vil blive vist på railborads i det offentlige rum i København og omegn, og som samlet vil give et mere nuanceret syn på den ældre kvinde.



ENG
You showed me your birthplace between the mountains and told me that our family house still stood.
That the cactus in the garden, which bore fruit last summer, still bloomed.
We sat by the waterfront, opened our packed lunch and ate with our fingers. “The Sun is the most important element, elli. The only place I want to live is by the Sea. We become one,” you said.

Press release:
Society is full of cultural narratives and expectations of what older women are, can do and should be. To counter this HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN invited 100 women and minority artists from Scandinavia to express their personal view of older women and this phase of their lives. The individual works of art on railboards in stations in and around Copenhagen presented 100 visual statements that brought a broader and more nuanced image of older women into public space. The project paid tribute to the wrinkles, wisdom and life experience of older women to generate recognition and present alternative visions.