In Norway, a three -year competition for the best project of the monument to those who died in terrorist attacks on July 22, 2011 ended. The winner is the local artist Matias Faldbackene. He wants to create a mosaic in Oslo with a waders living on the island of Utoya, where Anders Breivik shot participants in the youth camp of the working party. This text is based on publication in the “raft”. This is a telegram channel where they talk about culture in the era of bad news. Every day, the editors of Medusa Sofya Vorobyova and Anton Khitrov talk about cinema, series, music, literature and contemporary art. Subscribe: we will be saved together in the storm. July 22, 2026 will be 15 years old from the date of terrorist attacks in Norway. Then the neo-Nazi Anders Breivik undermined the bomb in Oslo, and then went to the island of Utoya, where he shot participants in the youth camp organized by the Social-Democratic Labor Party. 77 people died in terrorist attacks. Breivika was sentenced to 21 years of conclusion (this does not mean that in 2032 the criminal will be released: he will remain in prison until the court admits that he is not a danger to society). In the first years after attacks, the Norwegian authorities thought about the memorials of the dead. In 2014, the Swedish artist Jonas Dalberg won the state competition with the “Wound of Memory” project: he proposed to cut through the Surbernaya Peninsula near the duckling three and a half meters wide. Stones and trees dug up from the ground during construction, Dalberg was going to use for monuments in Oslo. But the construction time was constantly delayed, and in the end they completely abandoned the project. The future memorial bothered the geologists who claimed that the shore was crumbled due to the cut gap, and the locals called it “the rape of nature.” Now other monuments were in the places of both attacks, not as large-scale as those that Dalberg proposed. In Oslo is a stand with newspapers damaged by an explosion. This is an object of the Lebanese artist and director Ahmad Gossaine is called “Moving the past: ruins for the future.” On the Utauy – the Memorial “Cleansing” according to the project of the Norwegian Architectural Bureau 3RW: a steel ring with the names of the dead, soaring among the trees. Nevertheless, the country’s authorities did not abandon the idea of a large monument. The Koro government organization, which is responsible for art in public places, held a new competition, this time more transparent than the first, where the Dalberg project won. It lasted three years, the jury included artists, curators, politicians, as well as people who survived in the attacks of 2011, and relatives of the dead. The winner was the Norwegian artist and writer Matias Faldbacken, who represented Norway at the Venice Biennale in 2005. “Support”, the competitive project of Faldbackena, not his first work in Public Art format: in 2022, the artist created in the National Park of Rondane “Debtor” based on medieval wooden sculpture. The memorial to the dead in the attack will be made in the same equipment. On the mosaic, the artist will depict a kulik living on the island of Utoya, and his reflection in the water. The monumental work of art will be 12 meters in height and 15 in width. The mosaic will support the steel structure. Exactly the same was erected in Oslo around the surviving section of the wall from Pablo Picasso “Fishermen”. The rest of the building had to be demolished: in 2011, it was damaged by the explosion. Over time, the “fishermen” were moved to another facet. Kaka told Faldbacken, after the attack, he visited Uta more than once and began to pay attention to local birds. The fragile Kulik, as it seemed to him, is the most suitable image to perpetuate the memory of the tragedy. “This is a very peaceful image, but it works almost like the Rorshah test,” the author argues. – Brayvik is a homegrown terrorist, which at one time puzzled the country. Behind the serene Scandinavian facade, horror is sometimes hiding. “” Breivik is a test for the whole system “Why does Norway do not want to tighten the prison even for a mass killer? An interview with the university professor Oslo Peter Sharf Smith “Breivik is a test for the whole system” Why Norway does not want to tighten the prison even for a mass killer? Interview Professor University Oslo Peter Sharf Smith (Tagstotranslate) News
