Embrace

2022

Group exhibition curated by Mika Hannula

Exhibited at:

Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden

&

Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland

The exhibition Embrace focuses on the internal logic of the painterly acts that are situated, committed and embedded. It is an exhibition in which all parts come together with the aim of creating and generating sites and situations for paintings to not only be but to become – to breath in, and to breath out, with the viewers and the site. 

The aim is to get away from the idea of distanced neutrality and start moving towards participatory analog experience – the demanding but pleasurable road from detachment to proximity, from absence to engagement. 

This exhibition will ask you to join in. Let’s alter the perspective and bring in elements of surprises. Let’s focus on singular and unique, allowing and encouraging us to enjoy experiments that take us somewhere where we yet have not been. Embrace inhabits the pleasure principle for creating and generating sites and situations to be with paintings.

Participants: Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson, Emil Holmer, Heidi Lampenius, Onya McCausland, Miikka Vaskola, Þórdís Erla Zoëga.

Curator: Mika Hannula.

Thordis Erla Zoëga exhibits the Connection series, working with intimacy and connection in various forms of mediums. With her use of dichroic film and holographic material she has studied the digital aesthetics of our everyday life, dissected and displayed so as to reveal the interaction and the way we connect to each other in these unusual times.