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Brief description of selected works: cosmosmosi, (i´m the fire) 2006 / Exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhusið Iceland Material description: bread-flour, yeast, water, two videos 10 min. each. The work dimensions where variable, the unbaked-bread thread, had been growing throughout the museum and trough all the exhibition period (6 weeks), at the end it was crumbled down, by the effect of air that transmuted the unbaked bread into a dried up baked material, and the daily passage of people. This ephemeral art work was conceived to develop a sort of relations between individuals and locations beside the idea of belongingness. With the tread of bread I walked across or closely almost to all the work pieces exhibited in the museum, for two weeks. Each participant and his work, took part of my “installation”, anyhow involuntary and the outcome was an osmotic reactions between individuals and spaces, ideas, functions and the matter of collective ownership. peter 2005 / Installation at the Gyllinhæð, Students gallery in Reykjavik Media description: An installation made with photographs, utilizing a yellow garden pipe, and a yellow gym pad, hanging from the wall of the gallery. A photographic research/documentation made to dredge the idea of releations between the enviroment where each individual is living, towards the subjectivness. The enviroment is seen as a prolungation of our inner nature, where the embodiment of self can find a place to releate with. A two weeks documenation project was olded with and inside Peters house, where he talked about the condition of lonleyness, and the future coming project about his personal life. The garden around Peters house was the first location where the idea of the „ inner extension“ was dredged. The releationship between the inside and the outside of daily venues, was seen and concieved as a prolungation of the awarness of inner thoughts and as part of the „colonization“ of the surrounding enviroment as a necessity in order to create a deal with the need of agreement. the double path project, 2006 / Exhibition in the Council Gallery, Akranes, Iceland and in Turin Italy. Material description: photo on a light box, water tank, and yellow garden tube. This work addresses the phenomenology theory of the Philosopher Merleau Ponty, where two parts are moving with two different criteria. As the water descends the garden tube, drop by drop, we imagine the movement made by the turtles depicted in the light box. However the movement can be considered a matter of fact, and also the imaginary depiction made by the viewer can be seen as reality. to where, 2007 / City Council Gallery, in Mosfellsbæ, Iceland. Material description: paper and paperboard, black tape, video 5 min., mirror, electric lamp. The installation was developed in two locations, one inside the gallery space, and one just outside. A cone made with cardboard paper, inside the gallery was requesting the viewer to look inside of it and by doing so discovering the outside part of the installation, where a mirror was reflecting the logo of a very know aliments factory who was just positioned below the gallery. Inside the gallery a video about the heart quake happened in Irpinia Italy during 1972 was showed on the side of the papers cone. This piece is made in conjunction with the idea and relations between consumerism, and culture. The piece is underlining the precarious of living and pointing out the possible identification with places, as a relevant principle in human being. The identification we made whit goods so close but also far from our needs. I worked with photographs from the earthquake happened in Italy during the seventies where hundreds of people, especially old ones, missed their home and eventually the constitution of their life as individuals. I placed outside the gallery a mirror pointing out the relation between, our inner needs, and the pushing commercial advertisement around us. The gallery location is in a “commercial centre” where there are supermarket, vine shop, hairdresser, and cloths sellers. The work is trying to connect multiple interpretations, besides commonly thinking. like when someting happens...2007 / Installation around the perimeter of University area in Laugarnes Reykjavik. Material description: cardboard pin up on tripod, black acrylics colours, weight to maintain tripods on site. The installation was thinked to discover new connections and feelings toward the surrounding environment. Letters were written on cardboards, and lived on site for one day. The people living around that area and coming by walk, where stimulated to dredge their connection toward nature and imagination. Questions as, when one starts, and where the other ends, where used as a frame to deal with. The area in front of the Esja, the biggest mountains in front of Reykjavik, where used to awake emotions and wander within people passing trough. An exclamation of wander: OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!! was utilized as a linguistic link, to subjectivise the site and give the spectator the possibilities to connect with the landscape around, by recognise the echo. comunism didn´t happen 2008 / Kulturehaus in Ahrensoop East Germany. Material description: a video based on photographs taken in Nuuk Greenland, during a workshop at the Silamiut Teather and Kangerlussuak School. Pictures where exhibited on wall covered by wrapped paper like: chips, sweets, meat, or even bread imported from Denmark to Greenland The aim of the project was to peek into the vision of young people living in the most Nordic capitals on earth and illustrate their point of view in form of photographs and video, analyzing their different and/or common approach toward life in relation of their connection to their own culture, history and roots, resulting in a future vision and expectative, influenced by the local mentality and deepen their knowledge of who they are. my sky, 2008 / Graphic Gallery Hafnarhusið, Reykjavik Iceland Material description: a cardboard cube box in 1,20x1,50 depth, hanging from a side wall, where the lower part was open to let viewers go inside the box and see the video that was projected on the roof inside the cardboard box. The video installation, is dredging the connection between Art history and human life by utilizing referential images from known Italian artists has Bernini, Borromini, and Giambologna from the Baroque time simulating a discussion with a body of a naked woman. The idea was to find out a possible dialogue between culture and daily life by considering statues as humans and vice versa with the naked body. A game played between several entities revealing the unknown emptiness, and questioning the journey. the law of dialectic 2008 / The New Branch Exhibition 2008, the Icelandic Emergent Artist Exhibition in Hjalteyri, Iceland Material description: a 3D video, wireframe of a city suburb, utilizing only the structure of architectures, where coloured circles where positioned a random on the surface area. Headphones numbered from 1 to 6 connected with the 3D video where spread all over the place at the exhibition space where interviews with 6 different voices, talking and answering each other without connecting one another, where playing inside the headphones. The piece is wandering about the possible connection between individuals throughout language, the piece also talk about the great expectation we lay in words, to reach communicate or express thoughts and feelings. the entrophy of landscape 2008 / Akureyri Municipal Modern Gallery, Akureyri Iceland Material description: a video, deepening the inner prospective of emotions where projected while all around the gallery placard with translated text from a book about the life and the mystical presence of the holy Mary, where spread all around the place. A shell with shaped photographs of different kind of woman was positioned in the middle and illuminated with a headlight. The piece dredges the connection between the imaginary and history, the story telling and memory by deepen the narration about the Virgin Mary and all the mystical connection related to her and trough ages, toward the pragmatic research, based on old texts but still questionable, proposed from the Historian writers. who’s afraid of who 2009 / Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhúsið Iceland Material description: a plate with holes in the middle and headphones lying under below where positioned in the middle of the space. A 6 tm. Paper, computer layout with shaped outlines numbered, where hanging on a wall. A lighted light table was in front of several shaped photographs standing in front of it on the pavement. Shaped silhouette where positioned around the space and connected with the centred table trough a cable with lighted spot settled on the back of the silhouette. A video with people acting as Baroque sculptures and paintings, changing one after another on a black background, was projected on the side of the installation. The piece is discussing the power of Icons and the common sense of inadequacy which we’re often falling into in front of history and external power. Does the cultural power have something to do with life, are we just subduing our existence and revealing so his dummy emptiness. Questions where speeded sarcastically by a game, made with numbers on the hanging computer layout, and connecting with placard scattered around with titles and names of each artists who had made those silhouette, but revealing the useless and non sense of reading trough organized structures, while something remaining even then unreachable. sometimes they’ll return 2009 / Natural and History Museum of Kopavogur Iceland Material description: a 3D video with a grid elevation of the perimeter around Iceland projected in a monitor, a black table with photographs positioned on, is standing in front of the monitor, a placard on the side with written description about names and drawn shapes from mysterious sea animals is hanging on the left side of the monitor. All around the Museum perimeter, where cardboards plates with enlargements of letters related to sea monster taken from an old map from 1554 standing inside the museum. The piece is discussing the connection between the imaginary and ordinary, how we can describe attribute or create new ones. How culture can exert influence on us and how do we manage the outcome. Those questions where collected onto a platform where people were asked to take part of by choosing a letter and being photographed with, to create a connection with the mystical imaginary world.