Maritea Dæhlin on A-FI-SA.
But it Might Not Be Tomorrow

This interview film was produced in connection with A-FI-SA. But It Might Not Be Tomorrow, Maritea Dæhlin’s first major solo exhibition, presented by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum at Nordover Art Centre in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

The exhibition developed from Dæhlin’s residency at Artica Svalbard in 2023 and traces a two-year process that moves between Longyearbyen and San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. Across a multi-channel moving-image installation, sound, photography, and text works, Dæhlin explores ritual, identity, language, and the body’s relationship to place—working with personal and transgenerational memory to open up connections across landscapes and histories.

The film offers a focused introduction to the work and its context, combining an interview-led structure with documentation from the exhibition and selected references to Dæhlin’s earlier performance practice.

Direction / Camera / Editing: Tom Warner
Interview & Production: Liv Brissach
Additional Photography: Bjørn Kjetil Undem; Studio Colibri

Artwork excerpts (A-FI-SA)

This film includes excerpted footage from Maritea Dæhlin’s multi-channel moving image installation A-FI-SA. Artwork credits: Pablo Rojo (Director of Photography), Dalia Huerta Cano (Film Editor), Soh Tokunaga (Costumes, Svalbard), Truls Hannemyr (Sound Design), Ursula Lascurain (Production Manager, Mexico), Tone Kittelsen (Assistant, Svalbard), Elisabeth Gmeiner (Producer).

Featuring: Nina, Rafiki, Jenny Calderón, Medhin Tewolde Serrano.