Martin Asbæk Gallery is pleased to present Undercurrent Breathing, Ditte Ejlerskov’s second solo exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition brings together not only the artist’s work within painting, over sculpture and woven carpets, to video, sound and digital art, but also the mythscape that Ejlerskov has created over the years. Its roots reach through time – from Homer’s tales of the Amazons to Greek and Norse mythology.
Here, feministic archetypes manifest as sculptural avatars – an aspect of Ejlerskov’s artistic exploration of mystical feminism. Ejlerskov draw inspiration from the American author and artist Merlin Stone’s groundbreaking work When God Was a Woman (1976), which uncovers how patriarchal religions have systematically erased feminine deities and symbols. Once, spirituality was centered around goddesses, fertility, and cyclical times – a lost cosmology that Ejlerskov seeks to reclaim through her art. With these works, visions of new futures emerge, where feminine forces and energies are revived.
Ejlerskov places the feminine archetypes within a distinctive universe, New Gynæa. The name echoes the Pacific Island New Guinea, yet its true origin lies in the Greek gynæa, meaning “of female nature.” Ejlerskov elaborates:
“I walk in the undercurrent. I move with it – surrounded by the dense presence of New Gynæa, a living terrain unfolding between the realms of digitality, mythology, and reality. It stretches beyond geography, existing in the space between what has been remembered and what is still forming.”
The exhibition extends the ideas explored in her previous shows, including her 2022 solo exhibitions about The Goddess of Oxytocin visualized through the ancient sculpture The Wrestlers at Martin Asbæk Gallery and Nikolaj Kunsthal and her solo exhibition at Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum last year, which revolved around the Nordic Sea goddess Rán.
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Ditte Ejlerskov (b. 1982) is a Danish visual artist who works in both painting and digital art. Ejlerskov studied at the Funen Art Academy, The Cooper Union School of Art in New York and at Malmö Art Academy, from which she graduated in 2009. Ejlerskov has exhibited at several institutions both in Denmark and abroad, including Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Malmö Konsthall, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, ARKEN, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Bonn Art Museum and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and her works are included in several private and public collections.
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