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.