Through a variety of media Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir (b. 1997, Faroe Islands)
explores themes of language, silence, and cultural heritage, weaving them together with recognisable materials such as wool, bronze, and film, relocating these objects in new contexts. She engages with the fluidity of meaning and history, recognizing how they continuously shape the present. As she always creates in Faroese, a minority language in most contexts, she works actively with the layered ways in which her work is interpreted, often through subtitles and translation. Drawing from feminist theory, craft traditions, and language, Eyðunardóttir examines how to create broader meanings through a personal lens.
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An attempt not to write in brackets
Text, tracing paper and plastic.
3m x 4,5 m.
2024
Exhibited at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands.
Text written in relation to specialization in artistic research and writing at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. Printed as text-installation and booklet. Exhibited in the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands
To contain the meaning when we destroy it separately
Fence, wool, tracing paper, crackers, hay, and seaweed.
2023
Exhibited in the exhibition Concioues Threads
at the North Atlantic House in Copenhagen.
From the catalog: “The video-essay Red Stripes
is a statement of emotion. Most abortion experiences in Faroese society
are not seen as legitimate. This work is a confirmation that they
exist. That self-chosen abortions have been, and always will be, carried
out. Exhibited in relation to the exhibition Video 2 at the Nordic House of the Faroe Islands.”
Reyðarstrípur
8 mm and digital footage.
05:30 min.
2021
Screened at the Nordic House of the Faroe Islands as well as at the Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival.
From the catalog: “The video-essay Red Stripes
is a statement of emotion. Most abortion experiences in Faroese society
are not seen as legitimate. This work is a confirmation that they
exist. That self-chosen abortions have been, and always will be, carried
out. Exhibited in relation to the exhibition Video 2 at the Nordic House of the Faroe Islands.”
Mother’s hat, Socks and Yarn
Bronze.
Multiple sizes.
2021
Exhibited at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen, DK and Scan House in
New York, USA.
From the catalog: “A knitted sock cast in bronze,
points to the aforementioned
historical trade and to the exhibition
venue’ s history as a storage place
for trade goods. The cast works are
full of contrasts: here the soft, old, traditional material is cast in bronze, a hard and expensive material.
To change what was intended..
Wool, fishing line, wire and stones.
2020
Exhibited in the exhibition Conversations about Fog at Nordatlantens
Brygge, National Gallery of the Faroe Islands and Hafnarborg, Centre of Culture and Fine Art in Hafnarfjørður,
Iceland.
From the catalog: “The work is made of linen, silk, wool, steel threads and string and
levitates in space like a living being, insisting on its right to exist,
while also directing the viewer’s attention to the fine threads from
which nature is woven and culture is spun.“
Brimgarður
Wool nylon wire and fence.
2021
Exhibited at the G! festival 2021, Gøta, Faroe Islands.
The project was a collaboration between artist Alda Mohr Eyðundardóttir,
the artist residency Hjá Karli and the Faroese publisher Eksil.