Welcome to a curator talk with Daría Sól Andrews Thursday 18th May (International Museum Day) at 2 p.m. Admission is free to the event and to the museum on International Museum Day.
All are welcome!
The artists of Tracing Fragments, who here trace their fragments are all telling stories that once would have been silenced. The fragments they retrieve come from the self’s main structural unit: their own past, and the past of their people discuss their works in the exhibition.
A tiny, fragmented memory can contain oceans of information. The artists who here trace their fragments are all telling stories that once would have been silenced. The fragments they retrieve come from the self’s main structural unit: their own past, and the past of their people.
Their works unpack stories of colonization, oppression, dispossession and marginalization. The physical-ness of their materials marks the works with a cathartic embrace, examining notions of heritage and identity. They reveal the complexities behind the understanding that where we come from informs our personhood, resulting in works that are intimate yet challenging, delicately hopeful, yet powerfully subversive.
The meaning of a work never belongs solely to the artist. If we are all fragmented universes that connect and belong to each other, the songs of the self inevitably become public when they travel around the public sphere. We reflect ourselves in the artist’s experience, disconnect it and intertwine it again in a larger context.
Daría Sól Andrews (b. 1993) is an independent curator and art critic currently based between Reykjavík, New York and California. Her curatorial practice is inspired by ideas of rethinking how, where, and in what form, the exhibition concept can be manifested.
In 2021, Daría attended the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Curatorial Fellow in New York. She holds an MA in Curating, Art Management and Law from the University of Stockholm and a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She works as Associate Director at Listval gallery in Reykjavík.
In 2017, Daria founded her home gallery as curatorial director of Studio Sol, where she renovated a warehouse building and presents exhibitions in a living room, home based setting. Daria aspires to create a place where life and art merge, to construct a space for experiencing intimacy and quietness, with art, yourself, and others
