Two channel video installation.
Digital footage, 16mm- and double super 8 footage, plexi and primer.
2025
Soundscape: Anna Katrin Ø. Egilstrøð
Mariam Elnozahy, curator:
“The video and sound installation Dráttir is based on Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir’s research into how the restricted access to abortion in the Faroe Islands is spoken about – or more often, not spoken about. 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.. She also uses the positioning of this Faroese issue in a Danish context to examine power relations between Denmark and the Faroe Islands and how abortion fits into this dynamic. The work unfolds through a series of conversations between Eyðunardóttir, filmmaker Maria Guldbrandsøe Tórgarð, and researcher Turið Nolsøe. 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.
Exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.