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  • Jesper Nordahl

    Mångkulturellt Centrum, MKC

    “We are flesh and geography,” writes the Italian ethnographer Franco La Cecla. In a world where we continually lose our surroundings to travel—both forced and chosen—community is an itinerary more than an identity. Jesper Nordahl has a keen understanding of how communities create themselves on the move and find ways of belonging that fall oddly between the local and the international, between stability and displacement. His series of photographs “Gasoline and God,” 2000, shows gas stations with mosques in Saudi Arabia, while the video Field trip, 2002, offers a guided tour through the Latvian

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