On Friday the 28th of April at 13:00 an open lecture by Hildur Bjarnadóttir will be held at the Department of Fine Art, Laugarnesvegur 91.

During the last few years Hildur has worked on an extensive project which has its material and conceptual roots in a piece of land she acquired some years ago in Flóahreppur in the south of Iceland. The piece of land is the source of colors for woven paintings and colored silks which create areas and situations within exhibition spaces. It is the spacial element of the color which transfers from the plants into woven fabric. Hildur’s older work builds on a female handcraft tradition and in one specific project Hildur’s grandmother and her connection to a piece of land in Hvalfjörður through the plants that grow there. In Hildur’s work color is a material which carries information about the place and the people which are involved with it. For Hildur, the land functions as a platform to contemplate issues of belonging and ecological disruption.

Hildur Bjarnadóttir lives and works in Reykjavík and Flóahreppur. She graduated from the textile department of The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1992 and finished her MFA degree from the fine arts department in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York in 1997. Autumn 2013 she started working on her PhD in fine arts at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design which she completed in February 2017.  Hildur has held many solo exhibitions all over the world, including 2016; Ecosystem of Color at Kjarvalsstaðir, Colors of Belonging in Bergen Kjøtt, Norway, 2015; Subjective Systems in Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo and Mapping a Piece of Land in Hverfisgallery, 2014; Flora of Weeds in Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, 2013; Coherence with Guðjón Ketilsson in Hafnarborg, 2011. Hildur is associate professor in the MA program at The Iceland Art Academy.

Metamorphosis is the caption for a series of lectures held at the department of Fine Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts this spring. In the lectures, new teachers at the department will introduce subjects and research in their practice, which contributes to the conversation about different approaches in ne art within the department and in the cultural environment.

In her presentation Hildur will talk about her working methods through three projects: Coherence, Flora of Weeds and Ecosystem of Colors. The presentation will be held in English is open to all.

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