Pull

Artist: Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir, 2nd year MA Fine Art student

Most texts exist and are mained by rotation. Before weaving or knitting, a thread has to be spinning by rotating and pulling fibres. This rotation can cause tension, if a thread is spinning too much. This tension can cause change, and even movement within the thread. But some threads just appear on their own. The threads of the oyster mycelium comes into being through growth. In comparison with the spin one, the thread of the oyster mycelium.

The Icelandic University of the Arts invites you to the opening of the solo exhibition Pull by Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir. The works in the exhibition deal with the energy and generativity of strings, their potential to move, influence, appear and display. The works are current outcomes of two longstanding projects, one dealing with the movement of overspun woolen threads, the other a series of attitudes at warming new and decomposing old texts with an oyster mushroom.

Vala Sigthrúðar Jónsdóttir (1993) lives and makes art in Reykjavík, she holds a BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Vala has taken part in group and solo exhibitions in Iceland in abroad; The Wheel (The bike), Design March, Sequences X, Marwan and Associate Gallery. Vala is one of the organizations of the Palestine Solidarity choir (Solidarity choir for free Palestine).

Opening: February 1st, 4pm - 6pm
Also open on February 8th, 13:00 - 17:00 and by appointment (6900451)

Location: RÝMD, Völvufell 17, 111 Reykjavík.