The solo exhibition pollur – spegill by Margrét H. Blöndal, is ongoing from Oct 7 – Nov 26 in the Skaftfell gallery.  I was moving along on foot, water that had pored from the sky filled the dents in the paths. Mirror, mirror on my way. Some are muddy holes, others opaque and then somewhere the clear bottom glitters through. A puddle is deep, sodden which swallows and makes something vanish. A mirror is flat – true or free dimensional – still you can look into the infinity – or not. A puddle coats a damage, it covers or emphasizes […]

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Solo exhibition. Hanna Kristín Birgisdóttir’s exhibition Silent Act comprises of two sculptures, both of which are somewhat confounding in their material form. A squared-off length of timber sits atop trestles, its ends covered in soil. Some of the same material has dropped to the floor. A circular hole runs along its internal length. Nearby are two rods, which also bear evidence of the soil on their surface, and are mounted on the wall. Across the gallery, on a shelf, is a long cylindrical deposit of soil. The back length of the gallery has been transformed into a bricolage tennis court; its net […]

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