Durational performance 4.5 hours and installation of bricks on the embankment of Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden. L 80 m. Letter height 3.20 m.
Performed by Davide Ronco, Morgan Schagerberg, Måns Håkansson, Andrës Camacho, Sofie Hesselholdt and Vibeke Mejlvang.

Brick, with its history and its critical role in the life of a city, is the foundation for the performative piece Please rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the error. The phrase is borrowed from the memorial monument Flame of Peace in Hiroshima, Japan, constructed in remembrance of the victims of the 1945 nuclear bomb. The Flensburg brick used in the performance has a long tradition and history in the construction of Danish society: from building train stations to ballast for ships that sailed to the West Indies during the colonial era.
The bricks were laid out along the fortification embankment outside Malmöhus Castle that houses the museum. As a slow physical action, the performance can be seen as an act of healing that creates an opening for change. Awareness of the violence and the suffering of the past and present is combined with an assurance that we who are now alive will not repeat past mistakes.

Included in the group show Sustainable Societies for the Future at Malmö Art Museum and EXPO Chicago 2021. 
Sustainable Societies for the Future springs from one of the most complex and urgent challenges of our day: how to create safe, inclusive, and sustainable societies.
Sustainable Societies for the Future is an extensive collaboration between Malmö Konstmuseum and Expo Chicago, US. The exhibition is part of Art 2030, an international organization that unites art with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainability and its seventeen Global Goals.
Artists: Catrin Andersson, Christian Falsnaes, Tue Greenfort, Max Guy, Ilkka Halso, Minna Henriksson, Ane Hjort Guttu, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Ingela Ihrman, Toril Johannessen & Marjolijn Dijkman, Mary Mattingly, Floating Museum, (P)Art of the Biomass, Cheryl Pope, Sean Raspet, Michael x. Ryan, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Sophie Tottie, Wang & Söderström and Amanda Williams.

Film and stills: Ene Bissenbakker.
Drone photo and film: Stefan Ohlsson.