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'A wound within nature itself'
MICHAL BONCZA reports on an extraordinary memorial to victims of the Utoya massacre in Norway

The official memorials at the sites where 69 people were massacred by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik in Norway three years ago are to be created by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg next year.

He was recently selected from a short list which included British artist Jeremy Deller.

Central to the Dahlberg project is the extraordinary Memory Wound, a 3.5 metre wide fissure in the tip of the Sorbraten peninsula that overlooks the island of Utoya where the massacre took place.

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