Steel, soil, vinyl marking, herring smell, photograph by Sigurhans Vignir from Reykjavík Photography Museum
Look up at the ceiling. See that octagonal craft? There was once a large opening where a tank in the Fax factory was located Now look down at the floor A similar opening was also present here It is hard to imagine how much herring was processed within these walls.
How many fish turfs were caught, or stripped of their oldest and most experienced members, in favor of monetary profit This portal, through smell and soil, reveals to us long forgotten memories.
Thanks to Lilja Birgisdóttir and Fischersund, Ásmund Hrafn Sturlusonar, architect, Óskar Arnar Arnórsson, historian of architecture, Gísla Helgason at Reykjavík Photographic Museum and Steinthór Gissurarson, a metalworker.
Steel, soil, vinyl, herrings’ scene, photograph by Sigurhans Vignir, Reykjavík Museum of Photograhy
Look up at the ceiling. See that octagonal crack? There was once a large opening there, framing the tanks and machinery of the Fax factory. Now look down at the floor. A similar opening around here as well. It is difficult to imagine how gentlemen were processed within these walls. How many schools of fish were lost, deprived of their oldest and wisest members for the sake of human profit. This portal, through scene and soil, speaks of forgotten memory.
Thanks to Lilja Birgisdóttir and Fischersund, Ásmundur Hrafn Sturluson, architect, Óskar Örn Arnórsson, architectural historian and Gísli Helgason at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography and Steinthór Gissurarson, metalsmith.
Photo credits: Sisters Lumière/ @sisters_lumiere
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