{"id":10976,"date":"2021-05-03T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/exhibition\/anna-vaivare-swimming-pool\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:59:56","slug":"anna-vaivare-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/exhibition\/anna-vaivare-swimming-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Vaivare \u2013 Swimming Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 7 \u2013 June 5, 2021, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SundhollSeydisfjardar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Swimming Pool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open for swimming pool guests during the regular\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SundhollSeydisfjardar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening hours.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwimming pool\u201d is an exhibition of drawings from Anna\u2019s book of the same title. The book was first published in June 2014 (third edition: May 2019) in Latvia by comic art anthology \u201cKu\u0161!\u201d in the series of \u201cMini ku\u0161!\u201d. It is a story about a worker at the swimming pool who enjoys observing people while keeping herself almost invisible doing her work. When you least expect it, she herself plunges into the water and unveils her special secret.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available for purchase online\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.komikss.lv\/books\/mini-kus\/\">https:\/\/www.komikss.lv\/books\/mini-kus\/<\/a><\/u>\u00a0, in the Skaftfell store (from June to August) and at Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Swimming Pool (cash only).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annavaivare.lv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anna Vaivare<\/strong><\/a> is an artist from Latvia mostly working in illustration and other graphic forms of transmitting stories and experiences. She started her professional career as an architect after graduating from Riga Technical University Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning. Having created and published a number of short comics, and having illustrated five children\u2019s books she then studied for a Master degree at the Art Academy of Latvia Printmaking department.<\/p>\n<p>While at Skaftfell Anna is planning to work on a new series of graphic novels, experimenting with her skills in visual storytelling and finding a visual language to display biographical stories including ambiguous emotions.\u00a0Anna is in residency at Skaftfell throughout April and May, supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordiskkulturkontakt.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nordic Culture Point<\/strong> <\/a>(Nordic Baltic Mobility Programme).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17189 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2025\/08\/KKN_lo-res-en.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"68\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 228px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 228\/68;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17206 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2025\/08\/Culture_ENG_SMALL-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"142\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 213px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 213\/142;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1564,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_exhibition_status":0,"wds_primary_location":0,"footnotes":""},"exhibition_status":[140,159],"location":[],"class_list":["post-10976","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibition_status-past-exhibitions","exhibition_status-residency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_status?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}