Saturday June 6th at 2 p.m., artist Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson will welcome guests for a talk about his newly opened solo exhibition, May Show Signs of Minor Defects, at Hafnarborg.

Over the years, the artist has worked with found photographs, discarded objects and other materials detached from their original context. What binds the works in the exhibition together is their shared insistence that context is material. A photograph on the pavement, a sentence in a second-hand book, an image released into a global stream. Meaning emerges through displacement and framing. Through these works we become more aware of our own habits of looking: how quickly we search for the original source, the stable narrative, the authoritative voice. These works make us question that impulse. They remind us that belief, interpretation and memory are collaborative constructions.

Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson (b. 1977) is an Icelandic artist based in Oslo, Norway. His practice spans photography, sculpture, publishing and curated projects. Jóhannsson often explores authorship, documentation and the social role of images through books, exhibitions and printed matter. His work examines the relationship between everyday life, the art object and exhibition contexts, frequently combining different media and materials within a single body of work. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 2003 to 2009. Since 2012, he has run the independent small press Multinational Enterprises.

Free entry – everyone welcome.