SUPERFLEX launched the work in 2002 as posters in the streets of Copenhagen as a comment on the increasingly reactionary immigration politics in Denmark. Sadly, the work is still relevant today. In retrospect, Danish immigration polices seem like an avant-garde of xenophobic policy-making: today, all over Europe, parties on both the right and left run on platforms which stoke anti-immigrant sentiment and promise more closed borders.
Foreigners, Please Don't Leave Us Alone with the Danes is a central work in the 60th Biennale Arte in Venice, and it is simultaneously being shown at SMK in Copenhagen. On this occasion, SUPERFLEX has invited Mads Nørgaard to produce a T-shirt with the work printed on the chest.
The SUPERFLEX x Mads Nørgaard – Copenhagen t-shirts will be available from July 30 in Nørgaard paa Strøget, Mads Nørgaard – Copenhagen in Aarhus and Berlin, and online at madsnorgaard.com here. The Foreigners, Please Don’t Leave Us Alone with the Danes poster will be exclusive available in Nørgaard paa Strøget.
Graphic design by Rasmus Koch.
