María Hrönn Gunnarsdóttir will open the exhibition Óson in Kubbur at the Department of Fine Art, Laugarnesvegur 91 on March 9th at 4pm. This is the second exhibition in the Spark Plugs series by first year students at the MA programme in Fine Art.

The exhibition Óson is about obstacles or interruptions. My process is similar to keeping a diary. I try to make sense of the challenges that the precious days and nights bring along. I take photographs and write down my thoughts and reflections, with some of my at least 100 pens, in my journals, which at each time are at least three if not more. One of them is yellow for a reason I do not understand and do not need to know.

A sheet has risen, it bears stories of life and death, joy and sorrow, children and pillow talk. Notes from a diary hang on a wall facing North and describe incidents that now stay beyond the ozone layer. Diagrams have been located in folded, ivory paper boxes.

Spark Plugs is a series of duo exhibitions by MA 1st year students in Fine Art for spring semester 2017. The shows are realized in different ways but are all a kind of spark plugs and an elaboration of ideas and processes of students to date.

María Hrönn Gunnarsdóttir finished her BA degree in Fine Arts from The Iceland University of the Arts (IUA) in 2005 and a diploma degree in Moulding and Ceramics from the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts in 2016. Earlier she finished a MA degree in Pharmacy and a diploma degree in Applied Journalism from the University of Iceland. She is currently studying on the MA Fine Art programme at IUA.

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