Shadow Material Vacuums

Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttir (born 1979) will present the exhibition Shadow Material Vacuums. Berglind Jóna’s approach to making the works considers the microhistories of time-based media works in the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland by examining “shadow materials,” the traces adjacent to the works, as well as affective research, the emotional and physiological responses to close and prolonged engagement with the collection-based works. In this exhibition, Berglind uses the Shadow Material Vacuum method she has developed to respond to Ásta Ólafsdóttir’s Hiding Under the Sun (1982) and Steina’s Orbital Obsessions (1975-1977).