Skaftfell warmly welcomes Heejoon June Yoon artist in residence for the month of January. Heejoon June Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work aims to uncover the ecology of absurdity and abnormal settings within the contemporary society through audiovisual making. Yoon’s recent work focuses on the interplay between body, form and shape in relation to semiotic theory. Inspired by how media technologies provide a new way of perception and communication, and a lot of miscommunications, she is making a series of landscapes and portraits of unknown lumps with A.I., collecting the machine’s algorithmic interpretation of her human-hand-drawings. She […]
Artists-in-Residence
Welcome new artist in residence Sara Nielsen Bonde
We are pleased to welcome Sara Nielsen Bonde as Skaftfells artist in residence. Bonde (b. 1992) Sønderborg DK, studied at Sønderjyllands Kunstskole in Denmark and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm where she received her master’s degree in 2019. She studied as an exchange student in Norway at the Academy of Arts in Tromsø and at Listaháskóli Íslands, in Reykjavik IS. Bonde’s work is sculptural where she works with installations in outdoor environments. She is interested in how materials move between being conditioned by nature, culture and industry. In recent years, Bonde has completed several permanent installations in […]