Alter/Breyta

Group exhibition with Brák Jónsdóttir, Hugo Llanes, and Nína Óskarsdóttir opened on March 26 until May 22nd 2022, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður.

From the exhibition text:

Alter / Breyta is a collective exhibition by four emerging artists who have all graduated fairly recently from Iceland University of the Arts. The group was chosen collaboratively with Bjarki Bragason, Dean of the Department of Fine Art, and invited to stay in Skaftfell´s residency for three weeks while further developing their proposals. While their works display a wide range of approaches and interests, an unfathomable thread appears to connect between them.

Some kind of alteration has taken place or has been made as a starting point in the artworks of the exhibition. Different material and ideas are being altered: The calm and lowkey process, the attentiveness and repetition that change mundane things, that transform and take them out of their previous context.

Fallen by Joe Keys is a collection of small and colourful objects which we ordinarily do not pay much attention to. They have been dropped and lost their original purpose. With the amount of objects and their private arrangement on small wooden shelves, they have gained some sort of exaltation and the viewer is encouraged to bow and get a closer look at them.