Borrowed time: Icelandic artists look forward

• Main Authors: Snaebjornsdottir, Bryndis, Wilson, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: 700 ARTS & RECREATION (collections; philosophy & education); 704 Special topics in fine & decorative arts; Nordal; Iceland
• Online Access: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4389/; https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4389/1/Wilson_YouMust.jpeg; https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4389/2/Wilson_BorrowedTime.pdf; http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/borrowed-time/

Borrowed Time: Icelandic Artists Look Forward presents the work of contemporary Icelandic artists currently engaged in the global dialogue on sustainability and the issues - environmental, economic, cultural, and social - that surround it. Featuring photography, video, collage, and installation, the exhibition invites viewers to challenge their assumptions and explore new modes of seeing. Borrowed Time includes work by Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Bogadóttir, Bjarki Bragason, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, The Icelandic Love Corporation, Rósa Gísladóttir, Ásthildur B. Jónsdóttir, Anna Líndal, Ólöf Nordal, Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, and Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, among others. Curator Ásthildur B. Jónsdóttir. Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson conduct their collaborative practice from bases in the north of England, Iceland and Gothenburg, Sweden. With a strong research grounding, their socially engaged projects explore contemporary relationships between human and non-human animals in the contexts of history, culture and the environment. The practice sets out to challenge anthropocentric systems and thinking that sanction loss through representation of the other, proposing instead, alternative tropes of ‘parities in meeting’. The work is installation based, using objects, text, photography and video. http://www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com. The Borrowed Time exhibition features Snæbjörnsdóttir & Wilson's You Must Carry Me Now (Houston) 2014 video.