Return to Sender

Experience Return to Sender – a thought-provoking installation by Kenya’s The Nest Collective, highlighting the urgent need to reconsider the way we consume. Made from secondhand clothing, the work confronts you with the grotesque waste landscapes that are all too common in low-income countries.

The installation will first be presented at Roskilde Festival and will later travel to GRASP 2025 in a new version. Here, a landscape of discarded garments becomes a physical symbol of overconsumption, inviting you to reflect on how we assign value to objects. Within this patchwork collage – known in Kenya as mitumba – you will also experience Delivery Details, a video installation featuring footage from the Dandora dumpsite and one of Africa’s largest secondhand markets, Gikomba.

The Nest Collective advocates for a circular economy as a solution, emphasizing the reduction of textile waste and the extension of clothing’s lifecycle and reusability.

Founded in 2012, The Nest Collective is a space for exploration, curiosity, and critical reflection. Through film, music, fashion, visual art, and literature, the collective challenges norms and imagines new, more just realities. Among its acclaimed projects is the queer anthology film Stories of Our Lives, and in 2018, they launched Strictly Silk – a dance party and multimedia space celebrating joy and community for women and non-binary people. The collective’s members live and work in Nairobi, Kenya.

This project is supported by OpEn – the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Information and Engagement Fund.