Sunday October 13th at at 2 p.m., we invite you to a visual description of Elín Sigríður María Ólafsdóttir’s exhibition, “We See What We Want to See”, currently on view at Hafnarborg, but Elín is the featured artist of Art Without Borders 2024. Visual description is a method of putting visual objects and experiences into words and describing them to those who cannot see with their own eyes. Þórunn Hjartardóttir and Guðbjörg H. Leaman will provide the description, but they have been working together on visual description since 2012, when the first organised visual description projects in Icelandic took place. Please note that this event will be in Icelandic.
The exhibition presents works that span Elín’s 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. Elín also has a great passion for theatre and performance, having been involved with the theatre troupe Tjarnarleikhúsið for years, as well as publishing poetry and working on stage production in various capacities, including stage and costume design.
Elín Sigríður María Ólafsdóttir (b. 1983) 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 Reykjavík School of Visual Arts in 2017. Elín’s work has been widely featured in solo and group exhibitions, for example at Listasalur Mosfellsbæjar and The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, as well as in books and magazines. Elín has been a frequent participant of Art Without Borders through the years and she is a consultant on matters of inclusion at Listvinnzlan.
Free entry – everyone welcome.