Goodgonebadwrong: Artist talk — Brák Jónsdóttir & Hugo Llanes
Welcome to an artist talk with Brák Jónsdóttir and Hugo Llanes, Sunday, September 3 at 15. They will talk about their works included in the collaborative exhibition Goodgonebadwrong, their work process and the run-up to the exhibition. The discussion will be in both Icelandic and English, questions in either language are welcome. Admission is free.
BRÁK JÓNSDÓTTIR is an Icelandic visual artist. She earned her BA degree in visual art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2021. Her work explores themes from prehistory to imagined futures, narrating fictional events that breathe life into extinct creatures and otherworldly beings. Bridging gaps of knowledge with imaginative mythologies, she creates totemic installations rooted in sculpture, delving into the tension between the artificial and the natural. Brák's works evoke tenderness, humor, and diverse worlds, where sensuous hypotheses emerge from factual extrapolations. Crafting enigmatic narratives through bizarre ecosystems, she ignites existential questions, inviting audiences to ponder the mysteries of life's ways.
HUGO LLANES is an artist based in Iceland. Has a BA from Universidad Veracruzana and holds a MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts. Hugo Llanes' œuvre depicts the social and political environments in which the artist evolves. In his more recent performances and video installations, the artist puts emphasis on his personal worldview, remembrance, grief and inter-human and inter-species relationships. To depict these, he employs artistic research and mediums such as maintenance art, performance, installation, site-specific, participatory art, video art, and extended painting.
GOODGONEBADWRONG brings together new works by artists Anna Reutinger, Brákar Jónsdóttur, Hugo Llanes and Sigurðar Ámundason. Goodgonebadwrong emerges from a close collaboration of the artists, and takes shape as a kind of a gathering place — the beginning or end of a slightly chaotic conversation where different voices intertwine and ideas take shape in the process. The exhibition takes an (un)pleasant position inside the belly of the great beast and brings forward fictional memories, nature, culture, extinction, soothing self affirmation — and a toast for a world without us!
Welcome to an artist talk with Brák Jónsdóttir and Hugo Llanes, Sunday, September 3 at 15. They will talk about their works included in the collaborative exhibition Goodgonebadwrong, their work process and the run-up to the exhibition. The discussion will be in both Icelandic and English, questions in either language are welcome. Admission is free.
BRÁK JÓNSDÓTTIR is an Icelandic visual artist. She earned her BA degree in visual art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2021. Her work explores themes from prehistory to imagined futures, narrating fictional events that breathe life into extinct creatures and otherworldly beings. Bridging gaps of knowledge with imaginative mythologies, she creates totemic installations rooted in sculpture, delving into the tension between the artificial and the natural. Brák's works evoke tenderness, humor, and diverse worlds, where sensuous hypotheses emerge from factual extrapolations. Crafting enigmatic narratives through bizarre ecosystems, she ignites existential questions, inviting audiences to ponder the mysteries of life's ways.
HUGO LLANES is an artist based in Iceland. Has a BA from Universidad Veracruzana and holds a MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts. Hugo Llanes' œuvre depicts the social and political environments in which the artist evolves. In his more recent performances and video installations, the artist puts emphasis on his personal worldview, remembrance, grief and inter-human and inter-species relationships. To depict these, he employs artistic research and mediums such as maintenance art, performance, installation, site-specific, participatory art, video art, and extended painting.
GOODGONEBADWRONG brings together new works by artists Anna Reutinger, Brákar Jónsdóttur, Hugo Llanes and Sigurðar Ámundason. Goodgonebadwrong emerges from a close collaboration of the artists, and takes shape as a kind of a gathering place — the beginning or end of a slightly chaotic conversation where different voices intertwine and ideas take shape in the process. The exhibition takes an (un)pleasant position inside the belly of the great beast and brings forward fictional memories, nature, culture, extinction, soothing self affirmation — and a toast for a world without us!
