Moving through time by Íris María Leifsdóttir

Exhibition and performance takes place at gallery FLÆÐI Vesturgata 17 in Reykjavík.

Gallery is open during performances:
23rd of October 2020 at 12AM
25th of October 2020 at 4PM
27th of October 2020 at 12AM
29th of October 2020at 12AM

Íris María will paint with watercolor, ink, oil and clay on canvas. While there is a performance you can chose to come inside the gallery or look through the large window. 6 guest max and please wear a mask. After each performance the gallery will be closed and become a window gallery.

“My paintings show a chemical battlefield where colours feed on toxins. I let incompatible substances play on the canvas. Recently I have deliberately been making use of nature, I use a welding machine to burn paintings, rain and wind to shape them and clay or soil to make the paintings into three-dimensional pieces of art. I try to put organic, natural processes on display, scenes of chaos becomes organic, somehow infused with life.

Little by little I started to paint abstract. I choose not to paint a particular object because I feel colours and organic forms have expressive power in themselves. I allow the colours to flow because I have faith in the expression and process. The act itself is meaningful because it is a collision of my own framing and the moment in which I am creating the painting. This performance element is important, reminding me of the fragility of the passing day.

This act of painting fascinates me because the painting becomes a monument of moving through time, be it a night of a storm, a dog walking over the canvas or how the light hit the surface on that very day. Within it is freedom to experiment and take risks. In this process I surrender control by inviting nature to take over. “

Íris María Leifsdóttir