{"id":32377,"date":"2026-02-04T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?post_type=events&#038;p=32377"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:39:09","slug":"in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE MIDDLE OF IT\/\/Mirjam Maekalle"},"content":{"rendered":"<section style=\"--overlay-opacity: 0%; --overlay-bg: #000000;\" class=\"hero-section h1-lg\" >\n\t<div class=\"container animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<figure class=\"bg-visual\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bannerfyrirkynningarbrefmirjam_Mirjam-Maeekalle-1800x1013.png\" class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\t<section class=\"meta-info-section\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"meta-info animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Date<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>13.February 2026 - 21.February 2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Location<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Block<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Calendar<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"dropdown add-to-calendar-dropdown\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"dropdown-toggle event-dropdown\" type=\"button\" id=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-bs-toggle=\"dropdown\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Set in calendar<\/a> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\" aria-labelledby=\"dropdownMenuButton1\" data-popper-placement=\"bottom-start\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/render?action=TEMPLATE&#038;text=IN THE MIDDLE OF IT \/\/ Mirjam Maekalle&#038;dates=20260213T000000Z\/20260221T000000Z&#038;details=Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/&#038;location=Kubbur&#038;sprop=&#038;sprop=name:\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-google\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Google Calendar<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"data:text\/calendar;charset=utf8,BEGIN:VCALENDAR%0AVERSION:2.0%0ABEGIN:VEVENT%0AURL:https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/%0ADTSTART:20260213T000000Z%0ADTEND:20260221T000000Z%0ASUMMARY:IN THE MIDDLE OF IT \/\/ Mirjam Maekalle%0ADESCRIPTION:Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/%0ALOCATION:Kubbur%0AEND:VEVENT%0AEND:VCALENDAR\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-apple\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> iCal Calendar<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"data:text\/calendar;charset=utf8,BEGIN:VCALENDAR%0AVERSION:2.0%0ABEGIN:VEVENT%0AURL:https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/%0ADTSTART:20260213T000000Z%0ADTEND:20260221T000000Z%0ASUMMARY:IN THE MIDDLE OF IT \/\/ Mirjam Maekalle%0ADESCRIPTION:Sko\u00f0a n\u00e1nar https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburdur\/in-the-middle-of-it-mirjam-maekalle\/%0ALOCATION:Kubbur%0AEND:VEVENT%0AEND:VCALENDAR\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-brands fa-microsoft\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Outlook calendar<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-section txt-columns\"  >\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row animation-child-elements animation-bottom\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>IN THE MIDDLE OF IT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Artist<\/strong>: Mirjam Maekalle, 2nd year MA Fine Art student<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nRooted 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.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"-Oe-247\">\n<div class=\"--mk-274\">\n<div class=\"-EV-744\"><strong>Mirjam Maekalle<\/strong> 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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSTAPOSTmirjam_Mirjam-Maeekalle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSTAPOSTmirjam_Mirjam-Maeekalle.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSTAPOSTmirjam_Mirjam-Maeekalle-800x800.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn-holder animation\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/vidburd\/private-features-of-graduate-students-in-art-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-dark btn-with-ico-link\">All 2026 MA Fine Art solo exhibitions<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Opening:<\/strong> February 13th from 16.00 to 18.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other opening times:<br \/>\n<\/strong>17th from 12 to 18<br \/>\n18th from 12 to 18<br \/>\n19th from 12 to 18<\/p>\n<p>20th and 21st by appointment (mirjam24@lhi.is).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Kubburinn, LH\u00cd, Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjav\u00edk.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn-holder animation\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fb.me\/e\/5M8rE6Wis\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-lg btn-dark btn-with-ico-link\">Facebook event<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_departmens_cat":0,"wds_primary_global_cat":0,"wds_primary_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"departmens_cat":[122],"global_cat":[],"events_cat":[247],"class_list":["post-32377","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","departmens_cat-myndlistardeild","events_cat-einkasyning-ma-myndlist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/32377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/32377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32401,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/32377\/revisions\/32401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"departmens_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departmens_cat?post=32377"},{"taxonomy":"global_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global_cat?post=32377"},{"taxonomy":"events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_cat?post=32377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}