The Great Noise, Triennalen Västernorrland, 2025

Installation views from the 18th century linen mangle house at Brynge industrial heritage area. A part of The Great Noise/ Det Stora Oväsendet, Triennalen Västernorrland 2025.

In "The Absence of Memories Created a Landscape With Two Horizons", Ylva Westerlund has created a plant print from specimens collected along a bay of the Baltic Sea. The rust-red patterns, printed on an old bedsheet, trace the outlines of treetops and ground vegetation — yet the horizon line and central point of focus are absent. In the play of light and shadow, the image appears like an afterimage, as if the fabric had captured the glare of an overexposed shoreline. The empty space becomes a place for repressed memories — or perhaps an opening towards another future. The work also carries a personal memory. Westerlund recalls how her mother would embroider over stubborn stains — sometimes menstrual blood — on the family’s sheets, transforming them into autumn leaves or small figures. This gesture connects the everyday with the layered stories of the landscape.

"Summer Meditation" is based on a portrait of the artist, divided in two. The resting body appears to be in a meditative state where streams of thought flow — or part of a story that unfolds from the surrounding natural world.