ART

FIGURE OUT.

Sitespecific installation, 2017.

Commisioned by Líst Í Ljósi Light Festival, Seyðisfjörður.

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

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