ART
After Memory
After Memory
Solo exhibition at Art Link’s Suldanha Suite, Fort Dunree Ireland. 2019.
Rapid Sunsets
Artists Book, 2018.
Figure Out
FIGURE OUT.
Sitespecific installation, 2017.
Commisioned by Líst Í Ljósi Light Festival, Seyðisfjörður.
Impossible Possession
Work in the group exhibition “The Impossible Possession” – Stockholm 2014.
”I can not appropriate the snow field where I slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight
in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.”
Simone de Beauvoir
In the exhibition Impossible Possession (Det omöjliga ägandet) questions about displacements, translations and getting lost in the foreign are posed. The exhibition is carried out as part of an artist-run exchange between Slakthusateljéerna (SE), Air d’Islande (FR) and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art (IS) which has been initiated in 2014. Pieces by the visual artists My Lindh (SE), Linus Lohmann (DE/IS), Litten Nystrøm (DK/IS), Stéphanie Solinas (FR) and Malin Pettersson Öberg (SE), which in different ways approach the landscape as a construction and projection surface as well as questions of identity, vision and time perception, are displayed.
The title Impossible Possession and the quote by Simone de Beauvoir are borrowed from a text about the exhibition written by Jonatan Habib Engqvist.
Jonatan Habib Engqvist’s text: Impossible Possession
With a departure point in the project, the Iaspis Programme arranges a conversation and screening, Translating Places and Constructing Landscapes. For the occasion, the films Journal of Earth Sciences by Malin Pettersson Öberg, Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No 1 by My Lindh and The Debt of the Soul by Stéphanie Solinas, along with images by Litten Nystrøm and Linus Lohmann, are shown. What is a place and how is its image constructed? In what way are we affected by the constant displacements and translations taking place in today’s globalized society? And how would artists and creators operate within this context, if they could independently formulate their roles and methods? The conversation also presents the working methods of the artists in an organically growing exchange where the participants’ existing international networks are used as the foundation for new travels, encounters, experiences, artistic works and knowledge exchanges.
Participating artists : My Lindh, Linus Lohmann, Litten Nystrøm, Stéphanie Solinas, Malin Pettersson Öberg
Text : Jonatan Habib Engqvist
Landvinding / Árgangr / Achievement
Performance and exhibition, Gallery Skriðuklaustur and surrounding garden. 2012.
The performance based work and installation is based on the setup of an outdoor work station – a defined area where grass is growing and the artists attempt to register each straw through drawing. Wind playing a factor for upholding the work, related to a scientific endeavour, in between movement of completed straw-drawings take place with a wheel borrow to the gallery space where the drawings are arranged orderly, on rows on the floor. The exhibition is gradually build up of documentation of the happening by the means of polaroids, drawings and small arrangements of straw that have found their way into the gallery space placed on white book blocks and old match boxes.
The title is a play with language, trying to translate from a complex physical object to language or drawings or from one language to the other is a re-arrangement of material and a human condition and achievement. The title indicates success – achievement – but other meanings of the translated words are inherent as well; The Icelandic Arrangur – or old norse Árgangr can be translated as “A years course” and the danish Landvinding also directly means working of the land, or taking over new territory.
Colonisation happens in various scales. Homo sapiens have completely changed to natural environment of Iceland by the introduction of sheep, Mono culture grass fields are symbols or areas where human easily can touch down on the great outdoors, grass cut to a suitable even length, chaos controlled.
Altered Heights
Altered Heights
Installation. Mixed media. 2013.
Exhibited at SPRING13
Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark. 2013.
The capture of the or a matter.
The acquisition of a scape, a state of transition or graduation, in multi senses, investigate a meeting point between the familiar and the uncertain state of noise.
To transport the circumstances, translation of sensation into manifested pieces or devices. The body of work accrues of position and perspective in a given moment.
the influences that shape a scape.
To catch the forces weigh the matter of object or phenomena and find them vanishing.
Indicate and witness this present.
The attempt to record this scape and the translation into a format that is capable of being ascertainable,
this achivation forms an altered state and purpose.
To send or transport the angular field of a particular moment with what is forfeit and added up in this transport or alteration by converting into a new format compressing and expanding, add noise, reduce noise.
Detail dissolve, noise forms the new detail.
The new Shape, the sum of perception, compressing, transportation, decompressing and re-perception,
forms an alternate elementary state.
The Elements of the cause is corroborated into a device or object.
Dust into stone
