Score for a longer conversation consists of more than hundred objects - all within a hull-like shape - all within the length of 120 centimetres - and most of them are done within different traditions of craftsmanship from all over the world. Thus, Score for a longer conversation, is seen as a manifest work of a global cultural dialogue. It is an amazing work, exciting as a first impression and fascinating in all its layers, from the tiny detail in one object to the astonishing diversity in the exhibition as such. The artist, Bård Breivik, is donating an exclusive art object from this work to the benefit of the Imagine Africa campaign.

The Danish Norwegian slave ship Fredensborg ran on shore and sank near Arendal in South Norway in December 1768, on her voyage in the triangular trade from Copenhagen via Ghana and return from St.Croix in Caribbean. The wreck was found in 1974, and from this discovery and the logbooks, Leif Svalesen has in detail documented the ships' last voyage. Two excavations by the Norwegian Maritime Museum, and the Aust-Agder County Museum in cooperations with Fredensborg Research Team, have lead to exhibitions in Norway, Ghana and at St.Croix. The main exhibit; Aust-Agder Cultural Center for Museums and Archives, Arendal.

This efforts have also been an important part for UNESCOs "Slave Route Project", and his book, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, is published in Norwegian, Danish and English. Thanks to Svalesen, Fredensborg is the best documented slave ship from the transatlantic slave trade, found as wreck.

Some of the cargos' was dyewood logs from the excavation, and Svalesen wanted to use one of them as material for an object to the work of Breivik, named Score for a longer conversation. The Score consists of hundreds of pieces, all shaped within the same dimensions in cooperation with craftsmen throughout the world. In total the work gives a contemporary image of our global crafts traditions.

- I'm now looking forward to the transition of the dyewood log, which was chopped by African slaves at St.Croix, loaded on board Fredensborg with the same hands, transported to Scandinavia, hidden for more than two hundred years in the deep cold sea of Skagerrak, he says.

This rough log of a brutal history will become a beautiful processed object. In its outstanding play of colours and hard wood structure, this former log will take its legitimate place as one, maybe, of the most interesting pieces in Breiviks Score for a longer conversation.

It is a significant work within contemporary art Breivik now donates for the Campaign. Is this his Image of Africa in transition?