{"id":12983,"date":"2024-09-13T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=12983"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:53:32","slug":"we-see-what-we-want-to-see-artist-talk","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/we-see-what-we-want-to-see-artist-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe See What We Want to See\u201d \u2013 Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday September 29th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, artist <strong>El\u00edn Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Mar\u00eda \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> will welcome guests at her exhibition <em>\u201cWe See What We Want to See\u201d<\/em>, currently on view at Hafnarborg in connection with Art Without Borders 2024. At the talk, El\u00edn and curator <strong>Unnur Mj\u00f6ll S. Leifsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> will explore the core topics and themes of El\u00edn\u2019s artistic output.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition presents works that span El\u00edn\u2019s entire career, from the early days of her artistic practice to the present, but she often works with fantastical imagery, in addition to drawing on the self and self-representation in various ways in her work, channelling her artistry through both words and visuals. El\u00edn also has a great passion for theatre and performance, having been involved with the theatre troupe Tjarnarleikh\u00fasi\u00f0 for years, as well as publishing poetry and working on stage production in various capacities, including stage and costume design.<\/p>\n<p><em>El\u00edn Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Mar\u00eda \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(b. 1983)<\/em><em> works in the field of visual art, theatre and poetry, having studied art both in Iceland and abroad, graduating with a diploma in art for students with special needs from The Reykjav\u00edk School of Visual Arts in 2017. El\u00edn\u2019s work has been widely featured in solo and group exhibitions, for example at Listasalur Mosfellsb\u00e6jar and The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, as well as in books and magazines. El\u00edn has been a frequent participant of Art Without Borders through the years and she is a consultant on matters of inclusion at Listvinnzlan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday September 29th at 2 p.m., artist El\u00edn Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Mar\u00eda \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir will welcome guests at her exhibition \u201cWe See What We Want to See\u201d, currently on view at Hafnarborg in connection with Art Without Borders 2024. At the talk, El\u00edn and curator Unnur Mj\u00f6ll S. Leifsd\u00f3ttir will explore the core topics and themes of El\u00edn\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12925,"menu_order":45,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-12983","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14338,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12983\/revisions\/14338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}