Tracing Roots - Thin Filaments and Porous Forms is a graduation exhibition of MFA students of the Department of Fine Art from The Iceland University of the Arts
Eight artists present their graduation projects, which mark the end of a two-year course that includes external research, the processing of intersection introspection and the deepening of their artistic practice.
Their art spans quote a wide range, diverse use of materials and methods, different approaches to ideas that reflect our current realities and our properties of the future, and give a good cross-section of the importance of visual art in our challenge times.
With great sensitivity for the affective relationship of everything hidden, the world of objects and nature, the artists share with us their ideas and sharp views on the constant state of impermanence and transformation at all times.
The audience is invited to embark on a synthetic sensory journey through the realm of growth and transformation, the cycle of the organic and the hearing of energy in different frequency. The exhibition takes us through Finnish emotional forests, along with roots into soil, into solid and then loose earth materials, through the vastness of the
human body and its substitutes, we sway in slow circles and with horsehair out the window and back in again, layer upon layer in open, closed and porous vessels, and with sound waves that plunge into the abyss and draw with thick darkness across the walls.
The works explore the human need to identify with other and even unrelated things and the various ways we use to understand the world and ours. One of those ways is through humor and exhibition guests are invited to participate and play. One can sense the artists œ joy of crafting their handmade objects, everything the undertone is characterized by their awareness of the anthropocene, the fragility of the ecosystem and the everflowing movement of nature.
Curator: Birta Guðjónsdóttir
MA-graduating students 2024:
Camilla Cerioni
Camilla Sæberg
Galadriel González Romero
Jette Dalsgaard
Julie Sjöfn Gasiglia
Martina Priehodová
Nele Karlotta Berger
Sunneva Asa Weisshappel
Vernissage: May 11th at 5pm - 7pm
Opening hours: 11th of May to 2nd of June from 12:00 to 18:00
Exhibitors'/Artist talks:
Saturday/Saturday May 18 at 5:00 p.m.
Saturday/Saturday May 25 at 5:00 p.m.
Thursday/Thursday May 30: 5:00 pm 8:00 pm
Saturday/Saturday June 1 at 5:00 p.m.
Camilla Cerioni will do an audio drawing performance at 5:30 p.m. on the days when the Museum of Contemporary Art is open, Wednesday to Sunday, throughout the exhibition period.
Camilla Cerioni will do a sound-drawing performance at 17:30 on the days when The Living Art Museum is open, Wednesdays to Sundays, throughout the exhibition period.
