the West Wall Gallery / the Skaftfell Library, April 18, 2011 They are the Ones who Make us is a sound piece based on three short stories written by the artist during the Skaftfell residency. “It was said that on one morning, so early that the waves were still and the water looked like milk there floated towards the shore of a town, quietly, a rowing boat. It floated to the shore and stopped to black sand. On the boat there sat a huge pig with coarse, peach-colored hair and it was tattooed all over. “ Henriikka Härkönen Artist in […]

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the Bookshop – Project space, April 18, 2011 “The painting developed without any clear plan or goal. First I painted a pig which lives 200 meters from my residence in Seydisfjordur – from there one thing took to another and this is the result. I want to leave it as open as possible and I hope it will be experienced as productive of meaning rather than being perceived as expressive of any pre-given “message”. However that may be, the painting does contain some references to factory farming.” Tom Backe Rasmussen Artist in residence at the Hóll residency during March – […]

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