Pop-up exhibition on Friday March 17, 17:00-20:00, Herðubreið
María Sjöfn will present her current work in progress, which was developed during her residency at Skaftfell in February and March.
María Sjöfn Dupuis Laufeyjardóttir’s artistic practice explores forms of natural phenomena in a multidisciplinary way. Her works often take the shape of installations, sculptural interventions, video, and drawing. Her working process begins with experimentation focusing on multifaceted perceptions of the environment, and in particular the inner and outer contexts of space and matter. She critically investigates the layered relations of the human being with its environment. When those layers are examined in a new context, visual language can create a new perspective on the matter.
María Sjöfn holds a M.A. in Fine Art from the Iceland University of the Arts (2020) and an M.A.dipl. in Art Education (2014) from Iceland University of the Arts and she is a teacher at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts. She is currently artist in residence at Skaftfell, where she is exploring place and space. Among other things, she works with the sea as a material, using remnants of salted sea on paper that leave drawings of forms and spaces, amplified by the refraction of light from the environment.
