Welcome to the opening of the exhibition Ordinary Places in Gerðarsafn on Saturday, January 13th at 3pm.
The photograph is an amazing phenomenon. So amazingly flat, just a dot on paper or screen. Trapped in the second dimension, where both her magic and limitations can be found. Yet it evokes a sense of space and substance. We perceive the image, believe in it. However, there is no truth in the film except that which is created in the mind of the viewer. The beginning of the exhibition lies in photography, which is explored through works in other media. As if the photograph has stretched too far out of its flatness and transformed into something else.
Here are Ívars Brynjólfsson’s photographs in conversation with the works of Emma Heiðarsdóttir, Haraldur Jónsson, Joe Keys and Tine Bek; art that springs from the human being’s perception of the environment. The artists have in common that they pay the utmost attention to the everyday and bend the ordinary, often just by pointing to it. The works bear witness to the everyday life in which the artist has cut small fragments and filled his pockets to be able to show us the treasures.
The second phase of the exhibition, Ordinary Pictures, will be opened on February 10th, where works by Ívar Brynjólfsson, Kristína Sigurðardóttir, Lukas Kindermann, Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir and Tine Bek will be shown.
