EVA ÍSLEIFS

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EVA ÍSLEIFS 
Contact: evaisleifs(at)gmail.com
Lives and works in Iceland Reykjavik.


Solo exhibitions


2026 Passerby. Bókumbók. Reykjavik. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2025 Long before it was long ago. Pálshús. Ólafsfjörður. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2024 This is our little mistake. Living Room. Athens. Greece&#38;nbsp;

2023 The Earth is my Bed. Kling&#38;amp;Bang. Reykjavik. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2022 HIC SVNT DRACONES. Galleri&#38;nbsp; Kverk. Reykjavik. Iceland&#38;nbsp;
2019 Looking for Proxies. Gallery Port. Reykjavik. Iceland

2019 Real time by all. MEME. Athens. Greece

2018 1001. Laugalækur. Reykjavik. Iceland

2017 Noway Different. A - DASH. Athens. Greece

2015 I am here; BELIEVE í South Gallery. Edinburgh Art Festival. Scotland

2014 Half an artist. SIM. Reykjavik. Iceland

Group exhibitions &#38;amp; collaboration
2026 Winter Nights. Curated by Eleni Riga. Living Room Athens.&#38;nbsp;

2025 In the Undergrowth. Ars Longa. Djupivogur. Iceland

2024 Anywhere else in the world. Center for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko. Poland

2023 Harbinger - final show. Harbinger Gallery. Reykjavik. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2023 Art Project Lavreotiki. Lavrio. Greece&#38;nbsp;

2023 OPNUN. Dialectic Bubble. It´s the media not you!. Y Gallery. Kóparvogur. Iceland

2022 Dialectic Bubble. It´s the media not you!. Listval. Reykjavik. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2022 Getting out Zola. Group exhibition. MEME. Athens. Greece &#38;nbsp;

2021 Head 2 Head. Bilateral exhibition project between Iceland and Athens ends in 2023.&#38;nbsp;
2021 Iðavellir. Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik.

2021 Morning Briefing with Kevin Harman at Harbinger Project Space. Reykjavik.


2020 LIPIU with Rakel McMahon. A - DASH. Athens.

2020 Safari of Sorts. LTD ink corporation. Public project. Glasgow.

2019 The Collection as automaton. ACG. Greece.

2019 Art Barter. Athens Greece.

2019 Rolling snowball 12. Djúpavík. Iceland.

2019 Dialectic Bubble. Ltd Ink Corporation. Edinburgh Scotland. ITMNY!

2019 Og hvað svo? / And what then? Living Art Museum. Reykjavik.

2019 For the many. Choppingblock Gallery. London. 

2019 Top Model. GPS. Glasgow.

2018 The Wheel. Sculpture Association. Art Festival of Reykjavik.

2018 About Looking. Gallery Gamma. Reykjavik. Iceland. ITMNY!

2018 Embody. Gerðarsafn. Reykjavik. Iceland. 

2017 The Thing is / MUNUR Skaftfell. Seyðisfjörður. Iceland. 

2016 St Hospitality Act III Breed Art Studios. Amsterdam. 

2016 Staðir / Places. Westfjords. 

2016 Sculpture Sculpture. Gerðarsafn. Kóparvogur. Iceland. 

2016 FEED. Kunst Vardo. Oslo. Norway. 

2015 Frenjur og Fórnalömb. ASÍ. Reykjavik. Reykjavik Art Festival. 

2015 The grass is always greener. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. 

2015 Pitcairn hall. London. UK 2015 SETTING. Athens. Snehta.Greece. 

2015 It ́s the media not you! Eastern Edge Gallery. St Johns with K. I. J. Hjörd. &#38;amp; R. McMahon.

2014 What do you think about the title “Nothing Lasts”?. London. UK

2013 The Antifestival. Kuopio. Finland 2013 Sequences Art festival. Reykjavik. Iceland

2012 Cherish the Moment. Catalyst Art Center Belfast with Þ. ÓIafsdóttur. Ireland

2012 Annuale. Art festival. Embassy Gallery Scotland

2012 ZooART Cuneo Italy. Art festival. Cuneo Italy

2011 Embassy@ Outpost Summer fayre. 21.6–26.6. Outpost Gallery Norwich

2011 Municipality. Bethnal Green Library. London

2011 The Ugly Clean up. Embassy Gallery. Scotland

2011 Endemis Ósýn. Gerðarsafn. Iceland

2011 The Return of the Losers. Kalmar Kunstmuseum. Sweden

2011 Going Public. Embassy Gallery. Scotland

2010 Festiwal Kulturalne Oblicza Islandii. Krytyka Polityczna. Warsaw. Poland

2010 Following people and drinking milk. Hafnarborg. Iceland

2010 The Thrill and the Dread. Talbot Rice gallery. Scotland

Education
2010 MFA in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art. Scotland
2008 BA in Fine Art from The Icelandic Art Academy. Iceland
2005 Diploma in Art and Design. Technical College of Reykjavik


Grants and scholarships

2026 Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen. Cultural Grants. Winter Nights.&#38;nbsp;

2026 Fjarðabyggð's Cultural Grants. Winter Nights. 2026 - 2027&#38;nbsp;
2025 Landsbankinn. Community grant. The Sculpture Garden.&#38;nbsp;

2021 - 2024 EEA bilateral grants. A - DASH. Head 2 Head Greece - Iceland&#38;nbsp;
2021 Hellenic Ministry of Culture. A - DASH. Head 2 Head Greece - Iceland
2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015 Recipient Icelandic Artist Salary
2024, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014 Icelandic Art Fund&#38;nbsp; 
2024, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 Myndstef Project Grants
2024, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011 MUGGUR / Travelgrants
2026, 2023, 2021, 2018, 2016, 2012, 2011, 2010 Icelandic Art Center / Travelgrants

2017 Culture Fund of Westfjords for the project Places / Staðir 

2011 Egill Skallagrímsson Fund. The Icelandic Embassy in London.

2011 Shortlisted for the RSA Residency. Scotland

2010 Nominated MAstars. Axis online resource for contemporary art.

2010 Culture Fund Westfjords for the project Land and Sea

2010 Travel and Culture grant from Reykjavik for the project Festiwal Kulturalne Oblicza Islandii

2009 Scholarship from ECA for MFA


Residency

2022 Fishfactory. Stöðvarfjörður. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

2018 MICRO Alumni Fellowship Residency at Edinburgh College of Art

2018 Intragalactic Performance workshop. c.off Space in Stockholm. Sweden

2017 I MISS MY MOM. Mexico and Chiapas

2017 It ́s the Media Not You! A - DASH Athens

2015 Snehta Athens. Greece

2013 Public vs. Public. Nordic project - The Festival &#38;amp; The Anti Festival

2012 Monument of Blue. Glasgow School of Art

2011 OFF SOURCE. National Sculpture Factory in Ireland Cork

2010 Festival Untitled. Bíldudalur Westfjords

Art Projects
2020 - 2024 HEAD to HEAD. Athens Greece - Iceland Reykjavik with Kling and Bang. 

2021 Staðir / Places. Art festival. Westfjords Iceland. With Becky Forsythe and Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir&#38;nbsp;


2019 Time takes Time. Athens. Greece. With Noemi Niederhauser.

2018 Staðir / Places. Art festival. Westfjords Iceland. With Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir&#38;nbsp;

2018 Beyond Human Impulses. Athens. Greece.&#38;nbsp;

2017 I remember not remembering it very well. A - DASH. With Noemi Niederhauser.&#38;nbsp;

2015 WAIT / WADE in project / Mjóddin, Reykjavík. Eastern Edge Gallery.&#38;nbsp;

2014 Exhibition of Lost Artworks / Culture Center in Akranes. Iceland. With Katrin Inga J. H.&#38;nbsp;

2014 Staðir / Places. Art festival. Westfjords Iceland. www.stadir.is.&#38;nbsp;

2013 Embracing Impermanence. Living Art Museum. Iceland.&#38;nbsp;

2012 The night of the lost Artwork. Reykjavik Iceland

2012 Meet the Locals. Artíma Gallery. Reykjavík Iceland

2011 My Friend the Foreigner. Ambulance Depot. Edinburgh. Scotland


Art work in collection:
The collection of the National Art Museum in Reykjavik. Iceland
The collection of The Living Art Museum. RVK. Iceland
The performance collection of The Living Art Museum. RVK. Iceland 


Publications
2020 TIME TAKES TIME. Created by Eva Isleifs, Noemi Niederhauser and Andreas Brunner. Designed by Typical Organization, motherbook created by Evangelia Biza and keys printed by Dolce Publication. One motherbook, 500 keys. 

2020 The Feminine Sublime in collaboration with Rakel McMahon and Katrin Inga J.H. Designed by Dimitris Mitropoulos. Edition of 140, self published. 

2019 The A-DASH issue of Sunny Days was published by Cube Art Editions on the occasion of the exhibition "The collection as an Automaton" curated by Elpida Karaba and organised by the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts as part of the Arts Festival Exhibition at the American College of Greece in February 2019. ACG Art Gallery, The American College of Greece, Athens. Designed by Dimitris Mitropoulos. Printed by DOLCE. Edition of 400. 


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Eva Isleifs b.1982 works and lives in Reykjavik Iceland. She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Iceland in 2008 and a MFA in Sculpture from Edinburgh Institute of Art in 2010. She has participated in international exhibitions and initiatives as well as workshops and co-curated exhibitions. Recent exhibits include Long before it was long ago in Pálshús in Ólafsfjörður Iceland, Ars Longa in Djúpavogur in Iceland, Anywhere Out of the World — Part 2. Site-specific at the Polish Sculpture Center, Oronsko, Poland, the solo show This is our little mistake in Living Room Gallery in Athens Greece, The Earth is my bed at Kling&#38;amp;Bang in Iceland 2023,&#38;nbsp; HIC SVNT DRACONES in the Galleri Kverk. Iceland 2022. Listval, Reykjavik's Dialectic Bubble Iceland 2022. Morning Briefing in Harbinger with Kevin Harman. Iceland 2021. Idavöllur, a group exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum 2021. Iceland. LIPIU, 2020, a group show in A-DASH, a collaboration with Rakel McMahon. Greece's Athens. 2020 outdoor exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland called Safari of Sorts.&#38;nbsp;
Eva ́s work is often reflecting the exhausted human, how the man perceives himself, the everyday and the social discourse. Ghosts of a bastard craft are lingering in the work, but as a way of replication and distortion within a historical context. She often plays with humor where hope and hopelessness play against each other and what is left are questions on how valuables and values are perceived and created. In her sculptural work she works with the notion of the replica, fact or fictional environment where she constructs performances, live or within the setting itself.&#38;nbsp; She possesses a firm yet malleable hold between the many worlds surrounding us – binding them together and uncovering a myriad of images overflowing with cultural and spiritual meanings while fully determined to be felt.
Eva works on numerous exhibition projects in collaboration with others. Eva established the artist initiative A - DASH in Athens Greece 2017 - till today which she runs today with Christina Petkopoulou and Zoe Hatziyannaki. A - DASH is a contemporary art platform based in Athens Greece. Initiating collaborations with art practitioners from various disciplines and places in the world. She co-founded the project Staðir / Places Biennale in the West of Iceland with Þ.Olafsdottur and Becky Forsythe, curating HEAD to HEAD 2021 - 2024 an bilateral project between Iceland and Greece in collaboration with Kling and Bang. TIME TAKES TIME 2019 - 2020 with Noemi Niederhauser and Andreas Brunner. It's the media not you ! 2013 - 2020 collaboration with Rakel McMahon and Katrin I.J.H and curated the Beyond Human Impulses in Athens and Reykjavik 2018. 
 
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Flipflops Sculpture 
2015

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I see myself in you 
2025&#38;nbsp;Edition 5/5 + 1AP&#38;nbsp;


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Winter Nights brings together Norwegian, Greek and Icelandic artists in an exploration of seasonal rituals, animist worldviews and ecological memory. The international exhibition considers the meeting point between nordic and southern animisms, reflecting on climate change and ecological grief. The exhibition was first presented at BO (The Association of Visual Artists Oslo) and at Femidomen in September-October 2025 with the support of Arts and Culture Norway and the Norwegian Embassy in Athens. It takes its title from Vetrnætr, the pre-Christian Nordic ritual marking the transition into winter. Traditionally held after the harvest, the gathering offered a final moment of communal exchange before the darkness and cold winter. It served both practical and spiritual purposes: strengthening social bonds and solidarity, while acknowledging relationships with the land, ancestors and other-than-human forces.Reflecting on “nordic animism” and historian Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen’s writings, describing it as a means of recognizing animals, plants, rocks, waters and spirits as “persons”, the exhibition seeks to re-establish kinship with the more-than-human world. Looking to traditions bearing this approach can offer us tools for re-entering a responsible, attentive relationship with the world. The participating artists responded to this invitation through works that address seasonal change, power, history, magic, sleep, death and rebirth, drawing on embodied experience, daily practices, family and land ties, as well as political concerns. In Oslo, it was central to shift the perspective away from that of a heliotropic society, one oriented toward light and the promise of perpetual growth, toward an understanding of winter and darkness as conditions to be embraced, inhabited and attuned to. Now, as the exhibition travels to my land, this perspective opens onto a convergence between northern and southern animisms. The exhibition expands beyond winter as a specific season to consider cyclical time, seasonal transformation and our relationship with the more-than-human world. It turns toward traditions, practices, and forms of knowledge shaped through humanity’s repeated encounters with ecological crises, asking what these accumulated ways of relating to nature might offer us in the present.Eva Ísleifs’ “I See Myself in You” begins with a found stone whose naturally formed features suggest a human face. Its smile appears at the entrance of the exhibition, almost like an apotropaic object: an object believed to ward off harm or unwanted forces through its protective presence, greeting the visitor while turning away whatever might threaten the space.
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I see myself in you with the work of&#38;nbsp;Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel&#38;nbsp; “Memory´s Maze”&#38;nbsp;

 The work emerges from pareidolia, the tendency to recognize familiar forms, particularly faces, in otherwise ambiguous patterns. For Ísleifs, this becomes a way of orienting herself in the world. On walks along the coast of Iceland, she found two such stones and named them sisters. This simple act of naming turns an accidental encounter into a relationship, opening onto questions of kinship, sisterhood, motherhood, and even grandmotherhood, as well as the artist’s own shifting relationship to femininity and masculinity. The stones become relatives through a process that begins with seeing and develops through naming and attention.
The stones resonate with Nordic animist traditions in which natural formations, particularly stones, are understood as carrying an anima, a presence or vitality of their own. Pareidolia introduces another layer: the human impulse to recognize faces and relations in the forms of the natural world, a recurring process in the history of art and a reminder that ways of seeing are never neutral.Having lived between Greece and Iceland, Ísleifs brings these different cultural landscapes into the same encounter. Placed at the threshold of the exhibition, the smiling stone becomes a point of connection between northern and southern animisms.
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	Photos Frank Holbein from the exhibition Winter Nights curated by Eleni Riga in Living Room Athens &#38;nbsp;

With works by: Marthe A Andersen, Tasos Gkaintatzis, Úna Hamilton Helle, Miriam Hansen, Eva Ísleifs, Maria Nikiforaki, Viktor Pedersen, Sarah Sikorie, Elektra Stampoulou, Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, produced by A - DASH and Living Room.
	
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Passerby Postcard
2026&#38;nbsp;
Curated by Bókumbók Edition 100/100

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Passerby 
2026&#38;nbsp;
Curated by Bókumbók 
Iron and aluminum&#38;nbsp;passerby_2026_bokumbok
Photos: Bókumbók 2026
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		<title>Long before it was long ago</title>
				
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Long before it was long ago. 
Pálshús. Ólafsfjörður. Iceland&#38;nbsp;

	&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b674bf0fc9bc600022976dbca892abd4b72ffbc2fe31a3664297ced778cd0bf/IMG_5755.JPG" data-mid="237990193" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b674bf0fc9bc600022976dbca892abd4b72ffbc2fe31a3664297ced778cd0bf/IMG_5755.JPG" /&#62;This is some vague connection to a story I heard, from my grandmother. Just like when the horizon becomes cloudy and you can't tell the difference between sky and ocean. I fall back in time, the images appear in my head. There she is serving them pancakes freshly baked, rolled up, sugared on a plate. Just before reaching the pier, the ship was stopped in the harbor and the customs officers came on board to check and inspect. Have a coffee and a pancake.


	&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62675c35c27cbcf18c3bcaf3a8514191ad16ed688b4d20616f8d18df79c0483e/IMG_5738.JPG" data-mid="237990191" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62675c35c27cbcf18c3bcaf3a8514191ad16ed688b4d20616f8d18df79c0483e/IMG_5738.JPG" /&#62;

	&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93461e16b325b3a584224c97184288b4387b073b6dce6f6de8f24a4f931c65f1/IMG_5737.JPG" data-mid="237990190" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93461e16b325b3a584224c97184288b4387b073b6dce6f6de8f24a4f931c65f1/IMG_5737.JPG" /&#62;On board 2025, photographic print on aluminium.
I don't get seasick, I feel a little like I have some fisherman blood running through me, a feeling of pride rushes over me. As if the ocean and I have made a pact. The ocean is a second home, a floating mother.There is a circle, there is a triangle, and there is a square. 
The space that lies between me and you is abstract. Just like playing with the basic shapes in an abstract image structure. The English word for geometry comes from the ancient Greek word γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") This could be some kind of geometric relationship, an earthly relationship. The symbol of the lifebuoy is put in context with the ideas of the perfect form. We need form, a framework to put things in context and connect.

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	&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4fbde8ba5bb2fb3c7d5c024ab1bfe436548ac9247778779978cfe66e821d758/IMG_5756.JPG" data-mid="237990297" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4fbde8ba5bb2fb3c7d5c024ab1bfe436548ac9247778779978cfe66e821d758/IMG_5756.JPG" /&#62;&#60;img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6b19f6711ce7496e323ea3dbe0eb03843d5340aa4924cbd105f9d780599fd1b/IMG_5750.JPG" data-mid="237990293" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6b19f6711ce7496e323ea3dbe0eb03843d5340aa4924cbd105f9d780599fd1b/IMG_5750.JPG" /&#62;Related. 2025. Sculpture. Plastic, paint, rope and iron.&#38;nbsp;&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6990d2c8cc68ac08d7e360d33f0f26a313fd2e59667a49e3174949f18154e44b/IMG_5741.JPG" data-mid="237990287" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6990d2c8cc68ac08d7e360d33f0f26a313fd2e59667a49e3174949f18154e44b/IMG_5741.JPG" /&#62;

&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/598e9a9ea26130bd77f971f2d05e5ee0db5803d7a23a90ce9298061f7513e3f8/IMG_5734.JPG" data-mid="237990171" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/598e9a9ea26130bd77f971f2d05e5ee0db5803d7a23a90ce9298061f7513e3f8/IMG_5734.JPG" /&#62;Guides 2023, silkscreen print. Edition 21/21
	And then there, yes there they fly out of the frame. The work is called Guides and they show us the way, at sea the story of the bird has been the story of the protector. I have been told that finding a feather on the road is a good sign, a feather is often a message from beyond. I have been playing with putting the feather in my palm and letting the wind take it, taking a deep breath in - then out, together.


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	&#60;img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3701b9c3c3fbd0507599a5fd50d0b03797548fac912cb9b43b890ec7735a5ee/IMG_5740.JPG" data-mid="237990286" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3701b9c3c3fbd0507599a5fd50d0b03797548fac912cb9b43b890ec7735a5ee/IMG_5740.JPG" /&#62;Help. 2025. Feathers, iron, metal frame.&#38;nbsp;


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Text by Eva Ísleifs
Photos of the exhibition by Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir&#38;nbsp;

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		<title>In the Undergrowth </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:34:26 +0000</pubDate>

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In the Undergrowth. 
Ars Longa. Djúpivogur. Iceland&#38;nbsp;Curated by Becky Forsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðsdóttir 
Artists: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki, US/CA), Edda Karólína Ævarsdóttir (IS), Eva Ísleifs (IS, Gústav Geir Bollason (IS), Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir (IS), Nancy Holt (US), Ragna Róbertsdóttir (IS), Regn Evu (IS), Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir (IS), Sigurður Guðmundsson (IS), Tuija Hansen (CA), Vikram Pradhan (IN/IS), Wiola Ujazdowska (PL/IS)

In the Undergrowth
In the Undergrowth traces our entanglements with land, sea, forest, plant life and the quiet vitality of what often lies beneath notice. It listens for ways of relating to the world—particularly to the textures and temporalities of undergrowth—that are grounded in lived experience, cultural memory and embodied ways of knowing Many of these ways have long been upheld within ancestral and Indigenous and knowledge systems rooted in particular places, languages and lifeways. Yet, through the lens of history, such traditions have often been cast as peripheral to dominant worldviews—those shaped by academic, colonial and extractive frameworks that claim universality. We recognize these forms of knowledge not as static or belonging to the past, but as adaptive, resilient and continually shaped by the urgencies of the present.
With small teeth at the tips2025, sculpture. Metal, paint.&#38;nbsp;

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In making this exhibition, we turned towards understandings that endure through story, intuition, memory and practice. We looked to philosophies emerging not only from specific communities in what are now called Canada, Iceland, India, Poland and the United States, but also from solidarities formed across geographies and generations. Here, knowledge is not only held in texts, but in gesture, in making, in land, in craft and in care The exhibition In the Undergrowth is not a fixed terrain, but a living, layered ecology—one that holds grief, protest, transformation and sensory knowledge. The artists approach these themes from divergent, yet deeply entangled perspectives. Some work intimately with organic materials or ritua action, grounding their practice in site, memory and bodily presence. Others take up perceptua thresholds, using abstraction or poetic speculation to evoke what lies beneath visibility and language Across their works, this “undergrowth” emerges both as a literal and metaphorical space: one of deca and renewal, historical sediment, and emotional resonance and resilience—a zone where dominan structures begin to loosen and new forms of relating may take root.


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Eva Ísleifs’s practice draws us into the intimate terrain of the undergrowth—where scent, sensation and memory intermingle in the soil. Her works channel the moment when one lies among moss and heath, and the fragrance of decay and renewal—earth, flower, weed, herb—seeps into the body, calming the nervous system while awakening something cellular, ancient, shared. This sensory ecology is not a
metaphor but a lived relationship between moving bodies and the land—between insects, flora, human and animal. Maríustakkur (Geranium sylvaticum) or lady’s-mantle, a delicate, non-fertile pollen producing plant, becomes a quiet symbol of resilience and the feminine—rooted, unassuming, yet 1 Originally published in the "Rumbles" (news section) of Avalanche, no.11. (Summer 1975), 6. persistent. Rather than illustrating nature, Eva’s works participate in it—calling us to notice what lies low, what murmurs beneath: the soft reciprocity of decay, shelter and slow transformation. In this world of moss beds and insect trails, where time is measured in cycles rather than progress, care is not abstract—it is atmospheric, instinctual and shared. Her practice reminds us that the undergrowth is not beneath us, but part of us: a site of ancestral memory, feminist intuition and ongoing renewal.Text by: Becky Forsythe and Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðsdóttir.&#38;nbsp;
Photos by:&#38;nbsp;Vikram Pradhan

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		<title>It´s the media not you! </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:16:45 +0000</pubDate>

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It´s the media not you!2023 Neon light with a mirror backspace and plexiglass cover

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