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.
Text, tracing paper and plastic.
3m x 4,5 m
2024
Exhibited at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands from september 2024.
EN: Red Stripes
8 mm and digital footage
(05:30 min.)
2021Screened 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.”
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
The work has since been acquired by The New Carlsberg Foundation.