Iron, Flax, Coal, and Chalk: New Works @ National Gallery of Iceland

Járn, hör, kol og kalk: Ný verk eftir Þóru Sigurðardóttur 2024

This exhibition brings together recent drawings, prints, paintings, and assemblages that follow on artist Þóra Sigurðardóttir’s decades-long preoccupation with the grid as an elemental structure against which drawings and objects are placed, creating tension between rectilinear order and organic form. At the center of the installation are several architectonic iron structures with shelves and vitrines containing both found and handmade objects. A tactile sensuality pervades this artist’s collection of commonplace things and natural materials, such as flax fibers, clay, feathers, and bone.

Photos: Vigfús Birgisson