Saturday, 16 November at 3 p.m. will Arngunnur Ýr, an artist, will be welcoming visitors and talking about her work at her newly opened exhibition, I'm sorry, but I can't help with that.. The exhibition features new and recent paintings by Arngunnur, in which the artist focuses on her own homesteading in Hawaii, as well as reflecting on the interplay between environment, history and land use.

The works shed light not only on the natural beauty of the area, but also on the questions raised by the disruption of a landscape with a long history, where the forces of nature regularly make their presence felt. It is here that Arngunnur now makes her home, with her husband, in a beautiful location where nature gradually gives way to man-made structures, and the artworks are thus woven into the land's multi-layered history. The works thus equally encompass the artist's personal reflections and a broader exploration of urban development and destruction, offering viewers an opportunity to contemplate their own relationship with history and the environment.

Arngunnur Ýr (b. 1962) graduated with a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986. She was later a visiting student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 1989 to 1990, but returned to California and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in Oakland in 1992. She has received various awards and accolades for her work, such as from the Svavar Guðnason and Ásta Eiríksdóttir Fund, and in 2005 she received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her works have been exhibited in Iceland, Europe and the United States, and are held in public and private collections both at home and abroad.

Free admission – all are welcome.