Grass is Greener brings together four generations of women: grandmother, mother, daughter, and granddaughter. Their lives are connected through experiences of war, separation, migration, and the pursuit of a better life – from village to city, and from Eastern to Western Europe.
The four women appear as life-size photographs attached to a large clump of earth. Only one side is covered with grass: the side where the youngest generation, born and raised in Denmark, stands. Each woman holds a shovel and works the soil from her own side as the earth slowly rotates on its axis.
The installation becomes an image of generations working on the same piece of land while standing in different places within it. It reflects on what is carried from one generation to the next – memories, trauma, hopes, and the desire for a different future.
Grass is Greener also plays with the idea of the West as a promised land and the belief that life will be better on the other side. At the same time, the rotating earth suggests that migration is never simply a movement from one place to another, but an ongoing process in which the past remains present.
