Euronews reports that Oslo is hosting the fifth Fjord Oslo festival, with international light-art installations on buildings, public spaces and the Nobel Peace Center exploring what peace means.
Oslo is hosting the fifth edition of Fjord Oslo, an international festival of outdoor light art, Euronews reports. Artists from several countries have created installations that illuminate buildings and public spaces across the Norwegian capital, including the Nobel Peace Center.
This year's edition is devoted to the meaning of peace and is part of IMAGINE PEACE, a European Union-funded cultural project. According to Euronews, the programme looks at themes such as war, resilience, freedom and coexistence. Organiser and light artist Anastasia Isachsen says that staging the festival in Oslo, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, gives the topic particular significance, and that it is about peace on a global level as well as on a personal one. Croatian artist Marko Bolkovic says his team asked people in six countries to describe peace in a single word, and that the answers were often not about war at all, but words such as father, friendship, mother and friends.
Visitors interviewed by Euronews were asked whether art can change how people think about peace. Norwegian visitor Ulrich Lauridsen said art cannot stop a war by itself but can make more people want to stop one, while Kenyan visitor Faith Imani described peace above all as freedom: the freedom to live, to exist alongside others and to move through the world. The Euronews report is the only source reviewed for this article, and it does not specify the festival's dates or the full list of participating artists.
