Saturday, 6th June at 2 p.m. will Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, an artist, will be welcoming guests and discussing his newly opened solo exhibition, May show signs of minor defects, at Hafnarborg.

The artist has long worked with found photographs and other material that has been removed from its original context. What unites the works in the exhibition is their shared focus on the materiality of context. A photograph on a pavement, a sentence in a second-hand book, an image that has found its own way into the world. Meaning is created through displacement and framing. These works therefore make us more aware of how we look at things: how quickly we try to pin down a specific context, a reliable narrative or a source. The works then encourage us to pay attention to this impulse within ourselves. After all, they remind us that belief, interpretation and memory are dependent on many interconnected factors.

Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson (b. 1977) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. In his work, he works with photography, sculpture, publishing and curation, among other things. He also often deals with the status of the author, documentation and the social meaning of images, for example in the form of exhibitions, books or other printed material. His work explores the relationship between everyday life, the art object and the context created by exhibitions, often weaving together different media and materials within a single piece. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 2003 to 2009. Since 2012, he has run the independent publishing house Multinational Enterprises.

Free admission – all are welcome.