{"id":13041,"date":"2024-10-07T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=13041"},"modified":"2024-10-07T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T13:22:34","slug":"unknown-benevolence-artist-talk-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/unknown-benevolence-artist-talk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Benevolence \u2013 Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday October 12th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, we invite you to an artist talk with\u00a0<strong>Edda Kar\u00f3l\u00edna<\/strong>, <strong>Kata J\u00f3hanness<\/strong> and <strong>Krist\u00edn Morthens<\/strong>, all of whom participate in the museum\u2019s Autumn Exhibition,\u00a0<em>Unknown Benevolence<\/em>. At the talk, they will discuss their artistic practice and their exhibited artworks, commissioned by the curator for the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition\u00a0<em>Unknown Benevolence<\/em>\u00a0is shaped by the need to get a sense of magic in a world that largely seems to be devoid of the magical, in somewhat hopeless times. The kind of magic that may be found in allowing space for things to be what they are, without an obsessive need to define or label everything. Similarly, artworks can be seen both as sentimental and incisive, just as they can hold apparent contradictions that perhaps ought to cancel each other out, but are, in the end, undeniably intertwined, like pain and personal growth, trauma and healing, joy and sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the exhibition itself is born from a similar thought of magic, giving way to collective healing and hope of a better world \u2013 an unknown benevolence that shapes our reality in a way that escapes words. This benevolence is indeed all-encompassing, even if it may not be felt strongly during times of hardship, and the contributing artists all confront this idea in their own unique way.<\/p>\n<p>The featured artists are Bj\u00f6rg \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir, Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, Suzanne Treister, Tabita Rezaire, Kate McMillan, Hildur H\u00e1konard\u00f3ttir, Ra Tack, Krist\u00edn Morthens, Tinna Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, Elsa J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, Juliana Irene Smith, Kata J\u00f3hanness, Patty Spyrakos og Edda Kar\u00f3l\u00edna. The exhibition is curated by \u00de\u00f3rhildur Tinna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication of a catalogue featuring texts by the curator and Hildur H\u00e1konard\u00f3ttir, as well as illustrations by Edda Kar\u00f3l\u00edna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday October 12th at 2 p.m., we invite you to an artist talk with\u00a0Edda Kar\u00f3l\u00edna, Kata J\u00f3hanness and Krist\u00edn Morthens, all of whom participate in the museum\u2019s Autumn Exhibition,\u00a0Unknown Benevolence. At the talk, they will discuss their artistic practice and their exhibited artworks, commissioned by the curator for the exhibition. The exhibition\u00a0Unknown Benevolence\u00a0is shaped by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13039,"menu_order":41,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-13041","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\/13041","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13041\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}