{"id":9144,"date":"2022-01-05T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=9144"},"modified":"2022-02-24T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:30:23","slug":"songbirds-exhibition-ending","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/songbirds-exhibition-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Songbirds &#8211; Exhibition Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday January 16th<\/strong>\u00a0is the closing day of<strong>\u00a0Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u2018s exhibition <em><strong>Songbirds.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition presents new works by the artist dating back to her visit to Havana, Cuba. Wielding her camera, she walked the streets of the city, where she noticed that many islanders keep songbirds in cages in their homes. This custom may then raise questions about freedom or the lack of it, not least considering the history of the island which has long been defined by restrictions and isolation. One may even wonder if the Cubans feel a certain affinity with the birds, seeing as their own movements are restricted and controlled. In any case, all of us ought to be able to connect to this isolation today, when our current global predicament has caused so many of us to feel trapped and caged, no matter where we find ourselves in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The curator of the exhibition is Dar\u00eda S\u00f3l Andrews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u00a0completed a BFA degree from the Art Institute in Boston in 1993. She has had many solo exhibitions, both in Iceland and abroad, including\u00a0<em>The Search for Truth<\/em>\u00a0at BERG Contemporary in 2018,\u00a0<em>Double Happiness<\/em>\u00a0at Ger\u00f0arsafn in 2016,\u00a0<em>Vanished Summer<\/em>\u00a0at Deborah Berke, New York, in 2014 and\u00a0<em>Neverland<\/em>\u00a0at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum in 2010. Katr\u00edn\u2019s works have also been featured in many group exhibitions, including\u00a0<em>Silent Spring<\/em>\u00a0at Hafnarborg in 2020. Four books have previously been published featuring Katr\u00edn\u2019s photographs and\u00a0<em>Songbirds<\/em>, which will be published alongside this exhibition, will be her fifth. Katr\u00edn has been nominated for various awards, like the EIKON Award in 2017, Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photographic Prize in 2009 and the Honorary Award of the Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The artist talk with Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir scheduled for January 16th has been cancelled.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday January 16th\u00a0is the closing day of\u00a0Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir\u2018s exhibition Songbirds. The exhibition presents new works by the artist dating back to her visit to Havana, Cuba. Wielding her camera, she walked the streets of the city, where she noticed that many islanders keep songbirds in cages in their homes. This custom may then raise questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8618,"menu_order":176,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-9144","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\/9144","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9144\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}