Baby’s breast

Video installation done with Auja Mist for Hamraborg Festival

2025

A shared experience among many girls is the feeling of being watched. At times, girls are granted an early entry into the world of womanhood. They are still children, yet they have begun to bleed, and tender breasts are starting to form. In that awkward phase between childhood and adolescence, they experience, for the first time, what it means to be a woman. But is that experience real, or merely a reflection shaped by the adult women around them?

In Baby’s breast, the artists recreate videos and photographs from this formative period in their own lives. From a time when they set up cameras in their bedrooms and practiced womanhood in front of the lens, for the first time. They mimicked the movements and mannerisms they believed defined being a woman, based on what they saw and imagined.

Now, this material, once confined to the privacy and safety of a girl’s bedroom , is being shown to the public for the first time. Footage created to be seen - but never shown - is finally being witnessed.

Ragnheiður Íris

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