LOCAL #2 (Iceland)

In April 2017 I had the chance to work as an artist in residency at the Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Seydisfjördur, Iceland.

The project features a series of works that embody and unfurl essential characteristics of the local topography and the environment I became part of.

I let the turbulent winds carry my DIY kite equipped with a video camera; painted and catalogued colour perceptions in an archive of water colours and photographs; extracted minerals from the rocks and used them as paint and followed the creeks on their way from the sources of melting snow deep into the fjord valley. Walking, climbing and flying turned my body to an instrument of observation: I felt the terrain under my feet, breathed in the air and absorbed the scenery through my eyes.

With these exercises in environmental geography I attempted to mediate sensibilities and sensations that were supposed to reveal no less than the soul of the landscape itself - or if you will - the (in)famous genius loci - whom I encountered personally in the series Shaving in East Iceland.