Join us when current artists-in-residence Faith La Rocque, Leander Djønne and Valérie Bourquin, will present their work and practice Thursday March 31 at 20.00 in Herðubreið Community Center. Norwegian artists Leander Djønne, staying courtesy of the Nordic Culture Point, will screen selected videos. The talk will be be in English and take approx 90 min. Bio Faith La Rocque is a visual artist living in Toronto, Canada and exhibiting internationally. Her work examines aspects of human experience through the use of alternative health therapies as both material and subject matter. Recent solo exhibitions include Medium, Sister, New York (2015), chisel to carve light thoughts at […]
2016
Photographs from the opening of Frontiers of Solitude in Prague
The final chapter of the Czech, Icelandic and Norwegian collaboration project Frontiers of Solitude took place Feb 4.- 6. in Prague,Czech Rebublic when an exhibition opened with 19 artists and seminar that offered comparison of opinions, experiences, and points of view of artists, curators, and other invited guests on the themes of the Anthropocene, landscape and art. Frontiers of Solitude focuses on current transformations of the landscape and the close connections between our post-industrial civilization and nature, and fosters collaboration and an exchange of experiences between individual artists, researchers and initiatives across Europe. Artists: Finnur Arnar Arnarson (IS), Karlotta Blöndal (IS), Gunhild Enger (NO), Þórunn Eymundardóttir (IS), Monika […]