29.08 –
21.09.2024
@ Listval Gallery

Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir

PALEBRIGHT BEAMDEEP

The work of Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir evolves around the manifestation of systems, their influence and how individuals produce and utilize them for their own benefit. The exhibition PALEBRIGHT BEAMDEEP is a colorful conversation between her woven paintings which are positioned systematically with the desired effect to trigger the viewer's senses. The inherent duality of her work, the material and the essence, and the system and the sensory, form the main configurations within her artistic research, as she gestures towards the paradoxical, push pull, hues of human existence.

Colors have an element of magnetism, their effect and our understanding of them is equally individualistic, cultural and undoubtedly value laden. Where we sat across from each other in her studio, she told me how she selects and detects the colors and combinations. The correct selection induces a physical reaction in her, her mouth starts watering and she feels butterflies in her stomach.

Each art piece is developed at a slow pace, as Ingunn paints the warp and sometimes the weft as she weaves, giving her full control of the color combination and texture. The selection of the thread, the inner and outer surface of the frame, form the components of the art piece and are to be viewed interchangeably from afar and up close. The flow between material and essence, the system and the sensory, becomes rather effortless in this regard. Simply because the artwork invites the viewer to equally focus their attention on the artist's characteristic colors and auras as well as the gridded and strict weave within the systematic installment.

In our conversations Ingunn had mentioned the urge to provoke a sense of visual tension within the viewer. Therefore the viewer is encouraged to engage with the artwork from different viewpoints, as a whole, up close, from afar, all whilst taking notice if any of the colors call for more attention and perhaps even cause a reaction. 

Karina Hanney Marrero, art theorist

Works

Ofið málverk (dimmblár, fölgrænblár)
akrýl, bómull, ull, viður
43
x 43 cm
IFI042
Ofið málverk (dökkgrænblár, fölbleikur)
akrýl, bómull, ull, viður
43
x 43 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI044
Ofið málverk (fölbleikur, dökkgrænn)
akrýl, bómull, ull, viður
43
x 43 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI041
Ofið málverk (fölgrænblár, skærbleikur)
akrýl, bómull, ull, viður
43
x 43 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI043
Ofið málverk (skærgulur, fölfjólublár)
akrýl, bómull, ull, viður
43
x 43 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI040
Ofið net (ljósblár, dimmblár, dökkvínrauður)
akrýl, bómull, viður
52
x 43.5 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI047
Ofið net (ljósbleikur, dökkbleikur, dimmblár)
akrýl, bómull, viður
52
x 43.5 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI048
Ofið net (ljósgrænblár, dökkgrænblár, djúpvínrauður)
akrýl, bómull, viður
52
x 43.5 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI045
Ofið net (ljósgulur, dimmgulur, dökkfjólublár)
akrýl, bómull, viður
52
x 43.5 cm
380.000 kr.
IFI046
Ofinn flötur (djúprauður, ljósgrænblár)
akrýl, bómull, hör, viður
60
x 63 cm
420.000 kr.
IFI049
Ofinn flötur (dökkbleikur, fölgrænn)
akrýl, bómull, hör, viður
60
x 63 cm
420.000 kr.
IFI051
Ofinn flötur (dökkgrænn, ljósbleikur)
akrýl, bómull, hör, viður
60
x 63 cm
420.000 kr.
IFI050
Ofinn flötur (milliblár, ljóslaxableikur)
akrýl, bómull, hör, viður
60
x 63 cm
420.000 kr.
IFI052

Ingunn Fjóla Ingþórsdóttir (b. 1976) is an Icelandic artist based in Reykjavík. She graduated with an MA degree in Fine Art from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2017 and a BA degree in Fine Art from the same institution in 2007. She also holds a BA degree in Art History from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, received in 2002. Ingunn Fjóla works mainly in painting, weaving and installation. In her work, Ingunn Fjóla has an inclination to extend the field of abstract painting into an open system, where the work is animated by the viewer and the space, often through direct participation.

Ingunn Fjóla´s work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in Iceland and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Iceland, LÁ Art Museum and Cuxhavener Kunstverein. Ingunn Fjóla has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Prague Biennale 5, Cluj Museum, Rumenia and Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany. During her career, Ingunn Fjóla has received various grants and awards. In 2022 she was awarded the Guðmunda S. Kristinsdóttir Art Award for outstanding female artists.

Ljósmyndari: Helgi Vignir Bragason
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