Creative Responses
Curated by Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir and Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir Featuring works by Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Aurora Robson, Bolatta Silis-Høegh, Camilla Thorup, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Hildur Hákonardóttir, Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir, Kristinn Már Pálmason, Laura Ortman, Peter Holst Henckel, Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir, Sigrún Inga Hrólfsdóttir, Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir In SPECTA we are excited to take part in Creative Responses – […]
What We Did Yesterday
However surreal the imagery Thordis Adalsteinsdottir’s paintings seem, they touch on key topics of our time. The climate crisis and our doubtful relation to nature and animals are present in many of her works, and our focus on self-realization and civilization is nodded at through markers such as fine porcelain cups, a British gentleman’s night […]
Thordis Adalsteinsdottir and Svend-Allan Sorenson – Absurd Birds and Other Animals
Finally, we are happy to open SPECTA’s first exhibition 2021: “Absurd Birds and Other Animals”. Absurd Birds is the overall title of Svend-Allan Sørensen’s series of 11 woodcuts of distorted, staggered figurations. In Thordis Adalsteinsdottir’s series of drawings, we meet several other animals, who play the main role in a kind of “reversed reality”, as […]