Alda  Mohr Eyðunardóttir


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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01.Dráttir

Moving image installation
(11:00 min.)
2025


Screenprint on plexi, primer, digital footage, 16mm- and double super 8 footage. Exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Afgang 2025.



The work unfolds through a series of conversations between Eyðunardóttir, the filmmaker Maria Guldbrandsø Tórgarð and researcher Turið Nolsøe, jumping between the complex discourse around abortion and the history of self-perception of Faroese people. The dialogue in the film is in Faroese, so audiences can only access the subtitles by circumambulating the work, at which time they are deprived of the image. Here, the search for meaning becomes a physical act mirroring the themes of the work. By collectivising a narrative that is often shrouded in secrecy, Eyðunardóttir’s work becomes both a meditation on shame and a space for visibility, where the unsaid is finally given voice.


02. 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 from september 2024.


Essay written in relation to my specialization in artistic research and writing, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, 2024.


03. Reyðarstrípur

EN: Red Stripes
8 mm and digital footage
(05:30 min.)
2021


Screened in relation to the exhibition Video 2 at the Nordic House of the Faroe Islands as well as at the Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival.


From the catalog: “The work 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.”


04.to change what was intended
to tug an oar through the heavy sea
to force the sea to succumb 
force it to bow itself
yield to me
clap for me
like the sea that clapped rocks
on its shoulders
while the pilot-whale fog approaches

Wool, fishing line, wire and stones.
2x3 m
2020

Exhibited at Conversations about Art in the Faroe Islands in the 21st Century at  Nordatlantens Brygge in 2020 as well as at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands in 2021 and Hafnarborg, Centre of Culture and Fine Art in Hafnarfjørður, Iceland in 2022.

The work has since been acquired by The New Carlsberg Foundation.

05. To contain the meaning when we destroy it separately

Wool, flour, hay, seaweed and bronze.
2x2m
2023



Exhibited in the exhibition Concioues Threads at the North Atlantic House in Copenhagen.