EMOTIONAL TERRAIN

Experience the installations Dráttir by Faroese Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir and North Atlantic ContinuOnus by Danish Helene Nymann, which open up new perspectives on both personal and collective memory

June 20 2026—January 24 2027

Emotional Terrain is a duo exhibition by Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir and Helene Nymann, exploring connections between emotion, memory, time and place.

Helene Nymann’s artistic practice revolves around memory, knowledge and the imagination as relational and collective processes. For this exhibition, she created the site-specific film work North Atlantic ContinuOnus and the sculpture How Far Did She See? Together, they constitute a new version of Future ContinuOnus (2023–), an expanding cartographic and interactive website-based work featuring memories collected from visitors at exhibitions around the world. The map’s coordinates are not place names, but emotions linked to memories that point towards the future. Visitors are invited to contribute by answering the question: ‘What do you remember that you want the future to remember?’ Their responses will be integrated into the video work over the course of the exhibition run.

Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir’s artistic practice revolves around geopolitical themes, the history of the Faroe Islands, and collective memory. For this exhibition, the film work Dráttir, originally created in 2025, has been further developed with new sculptural elements: transparent walls containing illuminated guard hair and broadleaf plantain – recurring symbols of resilience within the artist’s practice. ‘Dráttir’ means ‘breath’, and the work is rooted in experiences and stories of abortion that are shrouded in silence. Visitors who do not understand Faroese are invited to shift their perspective as they encounter the work since the images and subtitles are presented separately.

Eyðunardóttir and Nymann both work cartographically. Eyðunardóttir’s work offers a way out of absence by drawing forth historically undocumented experiences of abortion, transmitted through and by the body. Nymann creates a place where collective memories are gathered and set free. These works not only document the past; they also give form to the memories of the future.

Through movement, shifts in perspective, and participation, visitors are invited to navigate a terrain of memories, emotions and experiences. Here, absence is not emptiness, but something that continues to shape people, relationships and places. The artists’ use of transparent materials and fragmentary, subjec- tive narrative structures likewise reflects the logic of memory.

The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Knud Højgaard Foundation, the Danish-Faroese Culture Fund and the New Carlsberg Foundation. Curator: Silke Calmer Dinesen

THE ARTISTS

Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir  graduated from the Schools of Visual Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2025 and has taken part in numerous exhibitions in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and the United States. She has also worked collectively on Faroese and Arctic projects focusing on art and activism. She is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands.

Helene Nymann holds a practice-based PhD and has presented works at the New Museum, Pioneer Works and Fridman Gallery in New York; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ARoS and Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark; MACRO in Rome; Tate Modern in London; and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.