The Ural Line 2021 – A Hymn for Peace

“The Ural Line 2021 – A Hymn for Peace” is an artwork by Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen. It consists of a light line and Dmitri Prigov’s text “Alphabet # 67”, written in the year before the fall of the Soviet Union. The work was part of the group exhibition “Prigov’s Distant Planets” at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg. The occasion was the 80th anniversary of the artist and poet Dmitri Prigov. The group exhibiton was curated by Yekaterina Eloshvili (DE / GE) and Andrey Prigov (DK / RUS).

Artworks by Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen

The work referred to “The Line – Light, Peace Sculpture” by Elle-Mie Ejdrup Hansen created on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. “The Line – Light, Peace Sculpture” consisted of a line of light from Skagen til Sild, a sound work by Palle Mikkelborg, and 1000 musicians. 22 international artists created 56 works along the coast. Dmitri Prigov participated in 1995 with the work “The Last Supper”, which consisted of three sculptures along the North Sea.

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