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An offspring of the dynamic art scene that thrives in Reykjavik, Sequences real-time art festival is an independent biennial that aims to produce and present progressive visual art with special focus on time-based mediums, such as performance, sonic works, video and public interventions.
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Margrét H. Blöndal (b. 1970 Reykjavik, Iceland) where she continues to live and work. Blöndal uses a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, text and photography. Her discreet assemblage works perform like poetic accents that punctuate the spaces in which they are staged. These pieces exude a mysterious presence, suspended between subject and prop. They are inscribed within a sensual script that extends beyond the immediate anecdotal character of their materials, including foam stuffing, deflated balloons, fly-lines, folded and pierced rubber sheets, etc. Like her sculptural works, Blöndal’s drawings also depart from overlooked figures, objects and gestures of the everyday. Framed and displayed together in installations, her paper works capture isolated animals, bodies, flowers, or simply depict movement and colour, in light pencil and watercolour on small sheets of white paper often dowsed in oil to form a halo around her delicate imagery.
Recent solo exhibition include Borð, Outvert Art Space (Gallerí Úthverfa), Ísafjörður, Iceland (2016); i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (2016); Meander, Galerie Thomas Fisher, Berlin, Germany (2015); Felldur/Field, Harbinger, Reykjavik, Iceland (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: Traces of Water (Curated by Ágústa Kristófersdóttir and Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson), Harfnarborg, Reykjavik, Iceland (2016); Kommentierte Musik II, Studio 1 í Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2015); Flóra, Akureyri, Iceland(2015); Ausstellungsraum Klingertal, Basel, Switzerland (2015); Distant Moods on a Blue Evening, Cesis Art Festival, Latvia (2015) and Cacences of Line and Color, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2014).
Blöndal was nominated for The Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Reykjavik, Iceland (2006 and 2008)
Margrét H. Blöndal is represented by i8 Gallery, Reykjavik and Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
