Open lecture // Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir

Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir
_{Open lecture in IUA Fine Art, L193.
30.09.22 at 1 pm}

Throughout her nuanced practice, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir explores ideas of beauty, utility, and context, continually questioning the relationship between perception and reality. The artist often examines banal items such as computer buttons, plastic clips, and textile sprays, celebrating their simplicity and the fact of their essential existence. By presenting prosaic objects in new mediums and scales, Birgisdóttir overemphasizes their familiarity, but also questions the straightforwardness of their functionality. These shifts highlight the sculptural value of the original item and celebrate the aesthetics of objects that are normally overlooked.

Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir

Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2003 and since then lives and has her studio in Reykjavík. She has in the last 20 years exhibited in most museums and exhibitions venues in Iceland – as well in various venues in Europe and North America. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavík Art Museum, and The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, among others.