Installation view, EVEN AFTER, 2112, 2024

Upon embarking on the journey that artist Jeannette Ehlers takes us on in Even After, we are swept away into a vast ocean of re-membering, carried by the sounds of crashing waves and distant drumming. In the new video work Memory Submerges All Things, Ehlers leaves us no choice but to confront the cyclical nature of being in the wake (2) of the afterlives of slavery and our colonial (hi)story. Performed with Sellasi Dewornu at the coast of Hornbæk as part of the TV-programme Kunstnerkolonien, recently aired on national Danish television, Ehlers and Dewornu re-call the ancestors whose souls are buried in the deep sea through a drumming ceremony, invoking questions revolving around diasporic memory, perpetual loss and decolonial strategies rooted in an experience of time as being rhythmic rather than staccato. As such, the strong currents of Memory Submerges All Things lay the foundation for the first solo exhibition at 2112 by Jeannette Ehlers.