Landscape for the Chosen will be Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition.
The Art Council of Hafnarborg has selected Landscapes for the Selected exhibition, curated by Eva Línar Vilhjálmsdóttir and Odda Júlía Snorradóttir, as the autumn exhibition for 2023. This exhibition will be the thirteenth in Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition series.
The Arts Council of Hafnarfjörður has chosen A landscape for the chosen, in curation Eva Línar Vilhjálmsdóttir and Oddu Júlíu Snorradóttur, as the Autumn Show of 2023.
This exhibition will be the thirteenth in Hafnarborg's autumn exhibition series, a project which aims to give curators with a relatively short career a chance to submit a proposal for an exhibition at the museum. The Art Council of Hafnarborg, together with the director, reviews the applications and selects the winning proposal each year.
About the exhibition
In their proposal, the curators discuss what it is like to live in a world of impending change and in a society that constantly calls on individuals to shoulder increasing responsibility for global problems. This is, in fact, a capitalist illusion that encourages us to build a unique identity, different from all others. When the illusion then collapses in our minds like a house of cards, it lies flat and lifeless as a hollow deception. We are left helpless in the face of powerlessness and we flee – but where to? It's no longer „cool“ to go travelling; Europe is basically like going out into the back garden, and Tene is just for old people. Escape from life, however, has always been inextricably linked with seeking new horizons through artistic creation, but now we must once again look further than ever before.
Finally, a particular imagery and aesthetic can be discerned that deals with our somewhat futile attempts to influence the bigger picture, yet all the participants in the exhibition have this in common: they acknowledge this illusion and seek different ways to escape the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies it. The exhibition thus maintains the tension inherent in the escape and people's experience of the contemporary, even though it offers no solution other than to allow visitors to lose themselves for a while in a landscape for the chosen few.
Eva Lín Vilhjálmsdóttir graduated with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Iceland in 2019 and an MA in Aesthetics from King's College London in 2022.
Odda Júlía Snorradóttir graduated with a BA in Art History from the University of Iceland in 2021 and is currently undertaking a Master's degree in Exhibition Studies at the University of Iceland.
The names of the participants and further information will be published later.