Residency events and activities

Artist Talk: Ji Yoon Jen Chung and María Sjöfn Dupuis Laufeyjardóttir

Artist Talk: Ji Yoon Jen Chung and María Sjöfn Dupuis Laufeyjardóttir

Tuesday March 7, 17:00-18:00, Skaftfell 3rd floor Skaftfell warmly invites you to an artist talk with our two current residency artists: Ji Yoon Jen Chung is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from South Korea working with research-based studio practice. She is artist in residence at Skaftfell in February and March. Her work focuses on the invisible and insignificant transitions, which are often taken for granted, unnoticed, and forgotten. Oftentimes, the attempts to preserve ephemerality and to concede the inevitability of a transitory phenomenon collide and coexist in her work. Derived from transitions, her artistic practice is an act of condolence […]

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Lucia Gašparovičová: 26 minutes

Lucia Gašparovičová: 26 minutes

February 10, 2023, Skaftfell project space Lucia Gašparovičová presents her photo installation “26 minutes” at Skaftfell on Friday, February 10, from 17:00-18:00. The pop-up exhibition is part of the List í Ljósi festival. About “26 minutes”: 26 minutes is the length of exposure – exposure of photosensitive paper inside a camera obscura to the light. This happened twice a day for two months, the camera obscura placed on a bench situated towards the harbor and the apparent movement of the sun in the Icelandic town Skagaströnd. “26 minutes” is a space-time recording and the visual materialization of the wide range of lighting conditions […]

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