It’s bubbling up at the moment. It always has, so in this year's St. Olaf's Exhibition, we focus on the bubbling, a strong liquid that wants to come out of its container.

For several decades, the St. Olaf's Exhibition has been a stable framework around Faroese cultural life, and it has been crucial for Faroese art history as a starting and gathering place for Faroese visual artists. The Art Hall has for many years been the venue for the St. Olaf's Exhibition, but now that the hall is undergoing renovation, this year's exhibition is moved into the five chambers and the Winter Room here in the first exhibition at the Faroese Art Museum. The rooms divide the exhibition into six parts, each housing the works that the 13 participating artists have created for the occasion.

The artists in the exhibition are:

Anný Djurhuus Øssursdóttir, Bjørk Ellindsdóttir Frýdal, Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong, Femja Haack, GUT//productions & Leikhús SKIFT, Katla Lave Næs, Laila Mote, Rannvá Holm Mortensen & Guðrið Poulsen, Sigmund V. P. Zachariassen & Gwenael Akira Helmsdal Carré, Supervisión, Tróndur Dalsgarð, Vár Samuelsen, and Vár B. Árting with RIVA.

The title of this year's exhibition refers to a text by Sara Ahmed, a British-Australian author and researcher. She writes that in today's society, we tend to put the difficult in brackets. What is hard to understand, repels us, or is simply too terrible to bear. When we put problems in brackets, it becomes easier to look away, but does it become easier in the long run?

The exhibition deals with the brackets. How can we stay in them? And is it possible to get out of them at all? Even though we know that if we stay in the brackets, it can have terrible consequences. Can we go back to before or forward to after we were enclosed in the brackets? Or is it actually best to try to bubble out of the container as best as we can?

This year's exhibition is created through conversations. A booklet has been made where the participating artists describe their creative process with words and images. The organizers and the artists have created an exhibition design and a visual identity, which together with the booklet, are collaborative works that we all have a part of. It is through conversation that we can feel less alone or powerless when it comes to the brackets in our lives. With art, it is possible to pause and pay attention to what is otherwise put aside, hidden away in the brackets.