Performance at Piazza Magione, Palermo, Sicily, Italy during the opening of Manifesta 12. 
Performed by Sofie Hesselholdt & Vibeke Mejlvang.

Inspired by sand mandalas Hesselholdt & Mejlvang perform a ceremonial sand ritual directly on the soil. By combining a hybrid of flag designs and a scale of six human skin colors, they symbolically dissolve and question nation states and racial hierarchies.

Included in Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy. ART & CONNECTOGRAPHY - Remapping the Global World Through Art - a collateral event by Arts and Globalization.
Curated by Rikke Jørgensen & Valentina Gioia Levy.
Artists: Jelili Atiku, Lisa Batacchi, Kenneth A. Balfelt + Kwame Aidoo, La Vaughn Belle, Nasr-eddine Bennacer, Stefano Cagol, Chim↑Pom, Manohar Chiluveru, Tiffany Chung, Nanna Debois Buhl, Romina De Novellis, Gery De Smet, Jeannette Ehlers, Beya Gille Gacha, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Richard Flaming + Jake Nussbaum, Moataz Nasr, H.H.Lim, Omraam Tatcheda.
The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and The Danish Embassy in Rome.

Photo and film: I DO ART Agency.