{"id":19419,"date":"2023-11-30T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=19419"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:48:02","slug":"venjulegar-myndir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/venjulegar-myndir\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The exhibition&nbsp;<em>Ordinary Pictures<\/em>&nbsp;shows the photographs of \u00cdvars Brynj\u00f3lfsson in dialogue with the works of Emma Hei\u00f0arsd\u00f3ttir, Haraldur J\u00f3nsson, Joe Keys, Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, Lukas Kindermann, Ragnhei\u00f0ur Gestsd\u00f3ttir and Tine Bek. Their works share a common element in that they pay the utmost attention to the smallest details, distort everyday life by flattening it or transforming it in various ways. During the exhibition, a conversation develops between \u00cdvar\u2019s series of photographs from 1991-2023 and sculptures, video works and photographic works by the other artists which arise from our perception of the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition opens in two stages, the subject matter and the approach of the artists developing and changing between the exhibition spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ordinary Places<\/em>&nbsp;will open in the west hall of Ger\u00f0arsafn on January 13th, where photography is examined with works that refer to non-places, the everyday and its distortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ordinary Pictures<\/em>&nbsp;opens in the east hall of Ger\u00f0arsafn on February 10th, where the practicalities of photography will be explored with references to the nature of the medium itself and the relationship between photography and science, as well as natural phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition&nbsp;Ordinary Pictures&nbsp;shows the photographs of \u00cdvars Brynj\u00f3lfsson in dialogue with the works of Emma Hei\u00f0arsd\u00f3ttir, Haraldur J\u00f3nsson, Joe Keys, Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, Lukas Kindermann, Ragnhei\u00f0ur Gestsd\u00f3ttir and Tine Bek. Their works share a common element in that they pay the utmost attention to the smallest details, distort everyday life by flattening it or transforming it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19088,"template":"","cultural_house":[263],"event_category":[],"event_tag":[],"event_umbrella":[],"class_list":["post-19419","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cultural_house-gerdarsafn-en"],"acf":{"short_title":"","location":"Ger\u00f0arsafn","event_type":"exhibition","price":"","start_date":"2024-02-10","end_date":"2024-03-31","all_day_event":true,"action_button_text":"","action_button_link":"","related_events":"","color_override":false,"video_cover":"","artists":[{"artist_name":"\u00cdvar Brynj\u00f3lfsson"},{"artist_name":"Krist\u00edn Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir"},{"artist_name":"Lukas Kinderman"},{"artist_name":"Ragnhei\u00f0ur Gestsd\u00f3ttir"},{"artist_name":"Tine Bek"}],"curator":"Brynja Sveinsd\u00f3ttir & Hallger\u00f0ur Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir","umfjollun":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/19419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/19419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cultural_house","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cultural_house?post=19419"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=19419"},{"taxonomy":"event_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tag?post=19419"},{"taxonomy":"event_umbrella","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_umbrella?post=19419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}