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Bjarnadóttir's recent exhibition, Cohabitation, at the Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst in Trondheim is a study in belonging. Her exploration of locally sourced natural dyes first emerged during her Fellowship with the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (2012-2017) at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. The research project - described as ´personal and existential´ - focused on her relationship with a plot of land in the south of Iceland called Þúfugarðar where she planned to move when the Fellowship concluded.Throughout the Fellowship, Bjarnadóttir focused on 'this piece of land, it's meaning as a place of my own, a place for me to form roots in and contemplate issues of belonging, ecological disruption, responsibility and the relationship between human beings and nature'. From themes that are enormous and potentially even impossible, Bjarnadóttir creates pieced and woven textiles that are extraordinarily beautiful. This observation is not intended to undercut the seriousness of her conceptual agenda, but rather to acknowledge that her work presents a rare example of material and conceptual balance. |
