2017

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Corrected Vision

LOCATION: Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor. We recommend potential guest follow the FB event, see here. “Corrected Vision” is a new installation by artist Jessica MacMillan, where she has turned her bedroom in Skaftfell’s artist residency apartment into a solar observation room. By installing sheets of optical-grade filter over the windows of the room, 99.999% of all light from outside is blocked-and in combination with a completely darkened space inside-leaves the spherical sun as the only visible object. Unlike most solar filters, the special filter in this installation does not alter the color of the sun, and allows the viewer to […]

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Margrét H. Blöndal

The solo exhibition pollur – spegill by Margrét H. Blöndal, is ongoing from Oct 7 – Nov 26 in the Skaftfell gallery.  I was moving along on foot, water that had pored from the sky filled the dents in the paths. Mirror, mirror on my way. Some are muddy holes, others opaque and then somewhere the clear bottom glitters through. A puddle is deep, sodden which swallows and makes something vanish. A mirror is flat – true or free dimensional – still you can look into the infinity – or not. A puddle coats a damage, it covers or emphasizes […]

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