Pull

Artist: Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir, 2nd year MA Fine Art student

Most textiles exist and are maintained by rotation. Before weaving or knitting, a thread has to be spun by rotating and pulling fibres. This rotation can cause tension, if a thread is spun too much. This tension can cause change, and even movement within the thread. But some threads just appear on their own. The threads of the oyster mycelium comes into being not through rotation but through growth. In comparison with the spun one, the thread of the oyster mycelium mushroom seems totally cool and relaxed.

The Icelandic University of the Arts invites you to the opening of the solo exhibition Pull by Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir. The works in the exhibition deal with the energy and generativity of strings, their potential to move, influence, appear and disappear. The works are current outcomes of two longstanding projects, one dealing with the movement of overspun woollen threads, the other a series of attempts at weaving new and decomposing old textiles with an oyster mushroom.

Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir (1993) lives and makes art in Reykjavík, she holds a BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Vala has taken part in group and solo exhibitions in Iceland in abroad; The Wheel (Hjólið), Design March, Sequences X, Marwan and Associate Gallery. Vala is one of the organizers of the Palestine Solidarity choir (Samstöðukór fyrir frjálsri Palestínu).

Opening: February 1st, 16:00 – 18:00
Also open on February 8th, 13:00 – 17:00 and by appointment (6900451)

Location: RÝMD, Völvufell 17, 111 Reykjavík.