?ri?judaginn 19. jan?ar kl. 16:30
Skaftfell, Austurvegur 42, 3. h??
Gestalistamenn Skaftfells ? jan?ar Nora Mertes (DE) og Rashanna Rashied-Walker (USA) fjalla um verk s?n og vi?fangsefni. Einnig mun Ingirafn Steinarsson gefa stutta kynningu ? listsk?pun sinni en hann dvaldi sem gestalistama?ur ? Slakthusatelj?erna ? desember ? s??asta ?ri, ? gegnum vinnstofuskipti ? vegum Skaftfells. Spjalli? fer fram ? ensku.
Um listamennina
Ingirafn Steinarsson lauk n?mi fr? Myndlista- og hand??ask?la ?slands ?ri? 1999 og ?tskrifa?ist me? MA-gr??u fr? Listah?sk?lanum ? Malm? 2006. ? verkum s?num vinnur hann me? innsetningar, hluti, teikningar og myndbandsverk. A? undanf?rnu hafa verkin veri? bygg? ? kringum hugmyndir hans um “menningarverkf?ri” og “fagurfr??i virkni”, sem eru tilraunir listamannsins til ?ess a? skilja hans eigin vi?fangsefni og umhverfi sitt.
Nora Mertes studied at the Alanus Academy in Bonn and at Hiroshima City University, and completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. Besides her artistic practice she is currently teaching?at?the Institute for Architecture-related Art at the Technical University Braunschweig.?Nora’s?residency at Skaftfell is supported by?a grant from the Goethe Institute.
In my work, I deal with the physical and virtual reality of rooms and landscapes to investigate the question of location and situation.?My impression of a place is that of an entity that constantly produces, copies, collapses, and re-creates itself through interaction, representation, and reproduction. An entity that is never clear, but rather is always in the making, on the verge of transformation from one state to another.
Rashanna Rashied-Walker is a New York based artist and writer. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA from University of the Arts in London, England. Much of her work levitates the visible and invisible poetry within the natural world. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Royal Institute of Art, Sweden; Mass Moca, Massachusetts; Cabinet, New York; Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts, Scotland; Botkyrah Konsthall, Sweden; Whitespace,Thailand; The Bronx Museum of Art, Five Myles and BRIC Rotunda Gallery in New York. Rashied- Walker has been awarded residencies at The Artist Village, Mustarinda, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Art Center, The Land Foundation and The Bronx Museum of Art. Published literary work includes: Content, The Happy Hypocrite, The Critical Friend, Creative Week and FIRE.
