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SUMMARY:The Factory: Enchanting Portals
DESCRIPTION:The eighth iteration of The Factory\, Enchanting Portals\, refers to passages through gaps\, time\, and realms. Drawing on the word “paganism\,” all 13 artists have crafted sensitive installations which rise alone yet correspond—almost ritually—in the strange intimacy of the worn concrete walls. There is a comfort to the somewhat unreal setting: as we move between pieces derived or inspired by shamanic drums\, the skull of a wild boar\, and Norse mythology\, we are reminded that life is never linear. Rather\, life is a braid of chaos\, divinity\, stones\, plants\, animals\, decay\, growth\, and birth. Stopping for a moment with that vision in mind\, consider paganism’s worship of multiple gods and its belief of man-nature unison as the mystifying underbelly of the exhibition.\n\nThe artworks are installed in five settings: the Meal Corridor\, the Storage Room\, the Aisle of the Conveyor Belt\, the Fish Oil Tank\, and outside\, opposite the bridge.\n\n\n\nArtists:\nAlda Ægisdóttir (IS)\nClara Holt (IT)\nFerrelyte (Kamile Pikelyte og Victoria Björk Ferrell) (LI / IS)\nFlorence Giroux Gravel (CA)\nGudrita Lape (IS)\nHeimir Hlöðversson (IS)\nJana Rinchenbachová (CZ)\nJette Dalsgaard (DK)\nLinnéa Falck (SE)\nMaria-Carmela Raso (CA)\nNína Óskarsdóttir (IS)\nSofie Hermansen Eriksdatter (DK)\n\nCurator: Emilie Dalum\n\nEnchanting Portals\, that runs throughout the summer from 10 June to 15 September\, 2023\, in the old herring factory in Djúpavík.\nOpen daily 10am – 6pm\nContact: emilie@thefactory.is\ninstagram.com/djupavikart/\n\n\n\nThe Factory is an annual group exhibition situated in the abandoned herring factory in Djúpavík in the Westfjords of Iceland. By integrating a broad variety of site-specific art\, installations and sound\, The Factory builds a bridge between the vanished fishing industry and contemporary art. Icelandic and international artists\, emerging and established\, are represented. Each work is inspired by the artist’s personal impressions of Iceland\, ultimately (re)creating an exhibition space in conversation and in contrast with the surroundings of Djúpavík. For each new iteration\, a sub-theme is integrated. The overall goal is to form a space of sensory explorations where past and present meet—a place for everyone to breathe\, exist and be.
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/the-factory-enchanting-portals/
LOCATION:The Factory Djúpavík\, Djúpavík\, Árneshreppur\, 524\, Iceland
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SUMMARY:Alter/Breyta
DESCRIPTION:Alter / Breyta is a collective exhibition by four emerging artists who have all graduated fairly recently from Iceland University of the Arts. The group was chosen collaboratively with Bjarki Bragason\, Dean of the Department of Fine Art\, and invited to stay in Skaftfell´s residency for three weeks while further developing their proposals. While their works display a wide range of approaches and interests\, an unfathomable thread appears to connect between them. \nSome kind of alteration has taken place or has been made as a starting point in the artworks of the exhibition. Different material and ideas are being altered: The calm and lowkey process\, the attentiveness and repetition that change mundane things\, that transform and take them out of their previous context. \nFallen by Joe Keys is a collection of small and colourful objects which we ordinarily do not pay much attention to. They have been dropped and lost their original purpose. With the amount of objects and their private arrangement on small wooden shelves\, they have gained some sort of exaltation and the viewer is encouraged to bow and get a closer look at them. \nThe installation and performance/lecture of Hugo Llanes deals with bread and its transitory cultural aspect\, it is an invitation to understand the political life of bread\, from basic nutrition to a value-charged industrialized product in which the raw material can denote our socio-economic status. The bread palates are a sort of presence of the artist as well as a by-product from his performance and invite the viewer to attend a universal co-experience while making and donating their own bread palate. The sculpture presents a cartoon character which can be read as an allegory of human habits and the obsession with edibles immersed in capitalist commodities. \nDaphne is a piece by Brák Jónsdóttir that hangs Junoesque and peacefully. It is based on the myth of Daphne’s metamorphosis when she was turned into a bay tree when fleeing from Apollo’s violent aggravation. The branches have formed a strong frame but have been bereaved of their outermost and protective skin\, the bark. The innermost essence is exposed but there we are able to reflect on ourselves and possibly look into our nearest future. \nThe idea of holiness and domesticity are interwoven in Nína Óskardóttir´s installation. Beautiful centrepieces and objects\, relating to craftmanship and home\, are simultaneously placed like icons on an altar touching on creativity and personal space. The noticeable fingerprints of the artist in the clay show that she is the creator of the artwork but the sanctity of the holy water is invisible to us. How can holiness be elicited? \nText by Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir \nArtists bio \nBrák Jónsdóttir was born 1996. She graduated with a BA degree from the Fine Art department of Iceland University of the Arts in 2021. Her works mainly take the form of video works\, books\, sculptures and performances\, but recently her subjects have revolved around humanity’s relationship with nature. Her approach is oriented towards the creative and earth based side of kink\, exploring our relationship with the earth in terms of domination and submission\, fantasy and feminism. Her works are often comprised of a blushing tension between pain and pleasure\, natural and man-made materials. \nHugo Llanes was born 1990 in Xalapa\, Veracruz\, México. He lives and works in Reykjavík and graduated from the MA Fine Art Program at the Iceland University of the Arts in 2020. His practice involves the study of political and social cracks and the aesthetics that erupts from them. His works include extended painting\, edible work\, installations\, site-specific and local performances. He looks at social circumstances in his work\, such as the movement of people between countries\, the abuse of power and the influence of post-colonialism on the development of identities in Latin America\, nationhood\, otherness and political resistance\, as well as working with the theme of food as a social dilemma-debate and the construction of meaning through culinary experiences. He uses his works as a platform to dissect these complicated and challenging notions that are intertwined\, seeing in the use of simple and poetical gestures\, potentials for dissection processes. Believing that the personal is a microsystem that is exposed to a global sphere\, his works encourage the viewer to reflect-contemplate as well as participate. \nJoe Keys was born 1995 in Newcastle\, UK. He has lived in Iceland since 2018 and graduated from the Fine Art department of Iceland University of the Arts in 2021. He predominantly works with found material through sculpture and printmaking. The works he makes reflect systems of organisation in daily life\, with a dry humour and consideration for overlooked and under-appreciated objects. He currently works as a supervisor in the printmaking workshop of Iceland University of the Arts\, and is part of the co-operative Print & Friends in Laugardalur\, Reykjavík. \nNína Óskarsdóttir was born 1986. She graduated with an MA in Fine Arts in 2020 from the Iceland University of the Arts where she also got her BA degree in 2014. Nína works primarily with sculpture and installation within her material based practice. She uses mediums such as clay\, textiles and light in conjunction with ephemeral materials such as water\, fire and food. She works with immaterial concepts\, such as sacredness\, memories and personal identity\, and attempts to make them material. Nína has exhibited her work through different projects both in Iceland and in Europe as well as working on her artistic research in various research opportunities.
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/alter-breyta/
LOCATION:Skaftfell- Center for Visual Art\, Austurvegur 42\, Seyðisfjörður\, 710\, Iceland
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