Suntaste

Rannv Holm Mortensen works in the colors of the Faroe Islands: reds, grays, black, white, and sometimes terra cotta, flesh. Her prints, collages, woodcuts and handwritten poems - dreamscapes and nightmares - are illuminated in this reproduction of her original artists book. Nature, earth mother, lifeblood of sea creatures, saltwater in our arteries, dendrites and seaweed-shaped shape-shifters. As you read, the female body dissolves into nature. One feels porous and pulsating. There is a cry, a plea at the core of the work - tidal longing. One hears the cavernous echoes of Frida Kahlos physical and emotional howls, and, as in T.S. Eliot s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the phylogeny of human existence recapitulating the ontology of being. One fish, one child, one woman at a time. Its a womans world, bloody, ventricular.