Christian", Mrs. Fernando Møghe said in
the classic Danish tv-series "Matador"
(similar to the British tv-series
"Upstairs, Downstairs").
We have laughed at this sentence many
times, as we have pictured the vault
deep down in the bank basement. That
laugh was the starting point of the idea
of making Ibsens' vault for our guests
not in the basement, however, but
upstairs in the reception and with a
wealth of colours. We stacked a bunch of
old safe-deposit boxes on top of each
other and asked the artist Sunny Asemota
to help us give the boxes a colourful
expression.
Sunny spent his youth in the area around
Nansensgade. Today, he has settled down
in Nexø on the Danish island Bornholm,
but is a good friend of our house.
Sunny Asemota's interest for the ethnic
aspect is almost literally in his blood.
As a son of an African father from
Nigeria and a Danish mother from Ålborg,
he has been in a constant search for his
identity, and this search is also
expressed in his artistic pursuits.