Artists-in-Residence

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One is On

Unnur’s works talk in different ways about fading human connectedness caused by different forms of accepted narcissism. Making an impression has become a norm of the human condition, it provides a new form of belonging. We are not connecting to each other on a deep level but to a designed image of one another. Online narcissism and computer coding refer to the total image control we strive for, our constant search for a recipe for perfection. The exhibition consists of three video works and a sculptural work placed in two different locations in the surroundings of Seyðisfjörður. In “Beauty Parlor” we see a white […]

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never mine

The exhibition never mine by Miriam Jonas transforms the Bookshop project space into a story not to be read, but to be stepped into: A visit to her Alter Ego´s imaginary mine, shelter and laboratory. This story is driven by the impact that the artist’s location has had on her, as she was finding herself surrounded by high mountains and confronted with enduring insomnia. Upon hearing a tale about crystals inside those mountains which cause troubled sleep and dreams, the idea of a miner was born, digging, experimenting, and waking for relief and solution. Miriam Jonas (*1981), Skaftfell’s Goethe-Institut Dänemark grant holder of […]

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