Love Fanney//one good porridge
In her lecture, Ásta explores the possibilities of language and the transmission of words from one place to another She sees performances as a kind of spiritual act and uses the dreamlike deconstruction of voice to reveal the hidden and chaotic knowledge hidden in language She will tell about her work which can tell the distinction between poetry on the one hand and performance and visual art on the other and talk about her work process as she works with different media, often on the friction points of expectation and reality and her military she weaves together humor with seriousness Connection between objects is an important part of her approach when fusing music, films, drawings and performances as well as experimenting with words, sounds, shapes, letters and symbols that are often taken for granted in everyday life.
,I am interested in the spiritual, esoteric aspects of human experience, both personal and socialI want to explore how we can move closer to intuition when technology tends to isolate us from each other From these musings, my work may often take a surrealist turn towards abstraction with a kind of fluxus twist. It's some mix, one good porridge”’
Fanney's love expresses the transience of dreams through her work where many worlds meet.
Her works appear and disappear at the same time, they circumvent results but form a platform where many perspectives, timelines and plots merge into a complex whole that envelops in a familiar but also exotic way.
Like the surface of water, the works involve hidden depths but also reflect the expanse from above in a momentary glare After there appear to be only liquid particles but soft undercurrents looms, hidden, untouchable like a nikk or a flash from strangers in the distance.
the fierce magic hill of high joy and tremendous chaos
Sigurðardóttir's practice evokes the transience of dreams, hybrid multiple worlds and
artistic disciplines into one. Her works simply appear and display, their results
often evading one's grasp as different perspectives, timelines, and storylines come together
in a multifaceted whole that envelops the viewer in a familiar yet alien way. Like the surface
of water, Sigurðardóttir's works embody unseen depths while also reflecting the vastness
above in a momentary glitter. Only an afterimage seems to remain floating there, but an
underlying looms, hidden, intangible like a nod or a wink from a stranger in the distance.
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is an artist, composer and poet. She studied at the Iceland University of the Arts and has published five books. Her works have been shown and performed at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Kling & Bang, the Living Art Museum, Hafnarborg, Y gallery, Casino Luxembourg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, the Cultural Center in Stockholm, the Cultural Center in Oslo, the Ars Longa Museum of Contemporary Art, Onassis in Athens and at the Embassy of Iceland in France and Japan. She received Jón's Poem from Vör in 2017 and was nominated for the Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou Literary Award in 2021.
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Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is an artist, composer, and poet. A graduate of the Iceland
University of the Arts, she is the author of five books. Her work has been expanded and
performed at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Kling & Bang, the Living Art Museum, Hafnarborg,
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Y Gallery, Casino Luxembourg, the Nobel Prize Museum,
Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Kulturhuset in Oslo, Ars Longa Contemporary Art Museum and Onassis in Athens.
She received the poetry prize Jón's poem from Vör in 2017 and was named for the
Bernard Heidsieck -Centre Pompidou Literary Prize in 2021.
