{"id":7516,"date":"2020-02-04T17:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hafnarborg.avistaserver.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7516"},"modified":"2020-02-04T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:16:54","slug":"artist-talk-thordis-johannesdottir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/artist-talk-thordis-johannesdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk \u2013 \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday February 9th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, there will be an artist talk about the exhibition <em>Far<\/em>, where <strong>\u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, artist, will speak about her works and the dialogue that takes place between her works and those of Ralph Hannam, an amateur photographer who was active in Iceland in the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n<p>\u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir and Ralph Hannam came to photography by unconventional routes. \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds is an artist, using photography as her medium of choice, without focusing specifically on its technological aspects. Ralph was an amateur photographer and judging by the work he left behind, it is evident that he used photography as a means of artistic expression. The interplay between their work is both persuasive and uninhibited, as form itself is their motif. The visual dialogue that takes place at the exhibition originates in the surrounding environment \u2013 everyday life \u2013 reminding us that beauty may be seen in surprising places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;\">\u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesard\u00f3ttir was born in 1979 and she completed a BFA from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2007, as well as an MFA from the same school in 2018. During her career, she has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with Ingunn Fj\u00f3la Ing\u00fe\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, under the title Hugsteypan. \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds has exhibited both in Iceland and abroad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry and everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday February 9th at 2 p.m., there will be an artist talk about the exhibition Far, where \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir, artist, will speak about her works and the dialogue that takes place between her works and those of Ralph Hannam, an amateur photographer who was active in Iceland in the mid-20th century. \u00de\u00f3rd\u00eds J\u00f3hannesd\u00f3ttir and Ralph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7515,"menu_order":231,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-7516","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\/7516","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}