One of the collaborations that I am immensely grateful for is the Reparative Encounters Network. Founded in 2023 the network that brings together artists, curators and researchers from the US Virgin Islands, Ghana, Kalaallit Nunaat and Denmark, locations differently impacted by Danish colonialism. The aim of the network is to foster artistic collaboration across these locations. In 2023-2024, the project organized 3 workshops - in Nuuk, St. Croix and Kumasi - where the members met to share their artistic practices and develop new work in dialogue. An exhibition was held in Aarhus at Rum46 in 2025, and we are now working on our forthcoming exhibition at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, in St. Croix in 2026, which will be the largest show of the group.

The project departs from the premise that Nordic colonialism had both entangling and disconnective effects: while it forcefully connected different regions through the material entanglement of people, practices, capital and technologies; it also severed people from their own communities, kinship, cultural archive and expressions. The vision of this project is to establish a network to connect artistic practices from these regions, bringing together artists and cultural agents who are repairing colonial legacies in each location through artistic practice.

More about the project https://projects.au.dk/reparative-encounters