Development – Artist's Talk

Sunday 1 February at 3 pm Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir talks to visitors about the exhibition. Development which is currently on display at Hafnarborg.

Revelation is a self-contained world where the creation, processing, communication and reception of a work of art take place in the same space. This is a new installation, one of the artist's most extensive works to date, and it brings together much of what has characterised her work to this point.

The exhibition hall at Hafnarborg has been transformed into a film screening room, a recording and production space where a 16mm film is produced, edited and screened. The film's black-and-white characteristics characterise the space and shape the creative process within the framework of the exhibition.

Revelation is at once a sculpture, a performance and a participatory work, in which Hekla Dögg evokes the power that lies in the collaboration of creative individuals, enlisting a number of artists to create short video clips. They therefore influence the narrative and development of the artwork, but its creation and narrative largely come into being during the exhibition period. In this way, the exhibition is fluid, and the work is not the same at the beginning and end of the show.

Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir is among the foremost contemporary artists in the country. For many years, she has attracted attention for works exhibited in museums and other exhibition venues both at home and abroad. Hekla is a professor of fine art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and, in addition to creating her own work, has influenced the Icelandic art scene, for instance by co-founding Kling & Bang, which has been a prominent artists' collective for several years. Hekla Daggar's exhibition is produced in collaboration with the National Film Archive of Iceland.