Spark Plugs: Arnar Ómarsson & Juliane Noelle Foronda

Arnar Ómarsson og Juliane Noelle Foronda open an exhibition in the Spark Plugs series in Kubbur, exhibition space at the premises of the department of Fine Art, Laugarnesvegur 91. This is the first exhibition in the Spark Plugs series by first year students at the MA programme in Fine Art. The exhibition extends throughout next week: February 6^th – February 10^th from 1 – 4pm.

Spark Plugs is a series of duo exhibitions by MA 1st year students in Fine Art for spring semester 2017. The shows are realized in different ways but are all a kind of spark plugs and an elaboration of ideas and processes of students to date.

Arnar Ómarsson

Look around you. As the world expands, it dreams of its original state of togetherness. The world is made up by relationships that suggest a network. All entities, every object, are described in the same terms; as an active element. Everything longs for relation, to be in a context and to be of or in something else. Plants thrive in a dialogue between the sun and the soil and a rock that is sent flying through the air eventually finds the ground again. Stay still and let these surroundings find you. Let them penetrate your senses and flow uncontrollably and forcefully through your mind. Look at yourself as an object of this space and give in to the friction between being and non-being. As an object, you are a product of the space that surrounds you at any given moment. Give rise to not knowing and surrender to the pleasure of the eternal friction.

Arnar Ómarsson is currently attending a two-year masters programme at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He graduated from a BA with 1st honours at University of the Arts, London in 2011 and has since been based in Aarhus, Denmark and Siglufjörður, Iceland.

Juliane Noelle

Juliane Foronda makes work about how objects, place and space exist together. Her constructions seek balance and silence, and rest between foreign and familiar. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the USA, Greece, Mexico and Iceland. Juliane graduated with a BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph in Canada in 2013 and she is currently a first year student of the MA Fine Art programme at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

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