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‘Memory Wound’ by Jonas Dahlberg, Swedish conceptual artist, at the tip of the SørbrÃ¥ten peninsula.
The Norwegian government has offered to replace a controversial Utøya memorial in an effort to appease local residents, reports www.thelocal.no.

The ?Memory Wound? memorial to commemorate the massacre of 69 people, mostly teenagers, on the island in 2011 has been fraught with controversy for years.

Designed by Swedish conceptual artist Jonas Dahlberg, the memorial is a ?permanent scar? that would see the tip of Sørbråten, the peninsular which juts out into the Tyrifjorden towards Utøya, severed from the lakeside, and the names of the dead then carved on the exposed surface of the new island.
Some residents of SørbrÃ¥ten have fiercely opposed the memorial, condemning Swedish conceptual artist Jonas Dahlberg?s design as a “rape of nature”, a “tourist attraction “, and a “hideous monument”.

The residents hired one of Norway?s top lawyers to prevent the memorial?s construction but the government said as recently as May that it would not change course.

In an apparent turn-around, Local Government Minister Jan Tore Sanner said tha...