Organic Circuits
Gallery 3, Foyer, Geothermal park Hveragerði, by Varmá river and in Kambar.
September 14th - December 22nd 2024
Anna Líndal (IS), Elísabet Jökulsdóttir & Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson, (IS), Freyja Þórsdóttir (IS), Heather Barnett (UK), Herwig Turk (AT), Ilana Halperin (US/UK), Jennifer Helia DeFelice (US/CZ), Patrick Bergeron (CA), Pétur Thomsen (IS), Skade Henriksen (NO), Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir (IS) and Magnea Magnúsdóttir (IS).
Organic Circuits is a group exhibition project bringing together international artists who have a tangible fascination with nature expressed through their works intertwining art and science. The exhibition presents pieces that reflect a deep and complex understanding of the natural world based on both research and profound experiential knowledge. Their interdisciplinary projects and collaborative transdisciplinary journeys help facilitate and support a true shift in how we view the landscapes we inhabit and occupy.
The interdisciplinary space between art and science is one where there are unique opportunities for unorthodox and progressive thinking. Collaborations help foster unusual connections and introduce new possible futures for relationships between sentient beings and the organic world. Art assists us in viewing and experiencing by creating a lens that transcends the intellectual and factual. Both science and art are developed through inspiration and wonder about that which is often found in our immediate surroundings.
Emphasis on the all-encompassing ecological crisis we face has flooded our daily lives. The barrage of images and statistics often casts a long shadow that obscures our quotidian ecologically-minded practices and the work of those who are systematically moving towards a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of life and inanimate forms, algorithmic processes, cycles, existing self-rectification processes, and the fostering of new ones.
Organic Circuits aims to shift our thinking towards reciprocity, renewed alliance with the natural world and offers a place to contemplate where our interactions with our surroundings have brought us. It involves seeking new types of collaboration and mutuality by looking at what is behind us and exploring ideas about moving forward.
Supported by:
South Iceland Development Fund, Federal Ministry Republic of Austria. House of Arts - Brno, Geothermal Park Hveragerði, the town of Hveragerði, Brno Faculty of Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts) UK.