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In the exhibition ‘The Echo of the Storm’, contemporary artist Ditte Ejlerskov dives into the emotions that arise during and after a storm or an intense experience. These are feelings that the artist knows from her own life – including, from her childhood in Vendsyssel, where the mighty and at times dangerous forces of the sea are a basic condition. Spurred on by her experiences and memories of the sea, Ditte Ejlerskov has created a number of new works with the Norse sea goddess Rán as the focal point. Rán is not one of the most well-known figures in Norse mythology nowadays but nevertheless played an important role as the goddess of the deep sea. With her powers, she created storms and waves and led drowned sailors to her realm at the bottom of the sea. In the exhibition, Ditte Ejlerskov unfolds the story of Rán through painting, tapestries, printmaking, video, Augmented Reality and not least through a bronze sculpture in which Rán, with her body, forms an inverted arc – a pose that many will know from gymnastics or yoga. Historically, however, it has also been linked to notions of female hysteria and witchcraft. In Ejlerskov’s work, Rán thus becomes an image of nature’s opposites between creation and destruction, wildness and tranquillity.