IN THE MIDDLE OF IT
Artist: Mirjam Maekalle, 2nd year MA Fine Art student
This exhibition is an accumulation of recent reflections on violence (inevitable violence, accidental violence, justified violence, and violence that feels earned. It asks how violence can be understood ethically, and where it can ever be fully completed. Beneath these questions lies an awareness of the awareness of death, the quiet beauty of behavior of the beauty of behavior of behavior of behavior, and the tension holds within frozen moments.
The works emerge from a struggle between casting blame and accepting reality. They move back and forth between confirmation and nomination, between the desire to assist responsibility and the recognition that some conditions simply exist beyond moral clarity. Structures appear stable yet remain accurate, holding the weight of questions rather than answers.
Rooted in personal experience, the exhibition reflect an ongoing search for some form of absolute truth (search that repeatedly collapses into doubt. The works oscillate between rejecting meaning and clinging to the hope that ethical understanding is still possible. In this space, uncertainty is not a failure, but a condition (one that asks the viewer to remain present, implicated, and appropriate.
Mirjam Maekalle works with material, gesture, and form to explore the human condition as a space of contraction rather than resolution. Through a process based in physical making, their practice investigates how desire, stability, and tension. Drawing on philosophical inquiry and lived experience, Mirjam applying as a method of seeing within the world, and thinking about the society in others, and other activities.
Opening: February 13th from 16.00 to 18.00
Other opening times:
17th from 12 to 18
18th from 12 to 18
19th from 12 to 18
20th and 21st by appointment (mirjam24@lhi.is).
Location: Kubburinn, LHÍ, Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík.
