The exhibition showcases the works of Guðrún Sigurðardóttir, Hugo Llanes, Lukas Bury, Mari Bø, María Sjöfn, Nína Óskarsdóttir, Sabine Fischer, and Sísí Ingólfsdóttir. The exhibition, which will be open until Sunday 22nd of November, is also the final event of the IUA’s 2020 graduation festivities that stretch over a period of sex months this time around.
There is a narrative in Supply that can be approached from various angles. It might begin on a lovely Sunday morning in Warsaw seventy-seven years ago. Or it might begin at Gunnuhver Geopark in Reykjanes, the DDR in Germany, on a lime farm in Mexico, an IKEA store somewhere in the world, or in downtown Reykjavik; three hundred years ago, forty years ago, or at this very moment in time. Perhaps we’ll trace a thread in a crocheted mould around concrete casts, to a mobile phone and fake nails; or we travel from micromovements of the body and the earth, to touching and forming, an object, a home, a story, a work.
In a single exhibition of eight artists, many threads and even more narratives are to be found. However the artists situate themselves and their works, it is the audience, in the end, who put the pieces together.
In Supply we focus on the repertoire of knowledge production, skill, and methods that are accumulated and constantly replenished through artists’ research and innovation; with practice, repetition, reflection, mistakes, and re-examination; collaboration and coordination with others. The supply is both individual and collective, synonymous with perseverance and innovation.
In their works, the artists use mixed techniques and media, such as painting, book work, 3D printing, ceramics, field recordings, sound, mobile phones, rope and tar, photocopying, kinetics and choreography, IKEA units, tree branches and flags.
