Sigurður Guðjonsson, b. 1976, Iceland

Sigurður Guðjonsson was born in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. He is one of the leading figures in Icelandic contemporary art, a rather unfamiliar field for the Chinese audience. The cold but beautiful nature featured in his video and photography, a signature trait of Iceland, seem almost unreal. Also, he uses music along with his imageries – the music he composed adds to the ambiguous and fantastic atmosphere of the images.

The main character in his work <Deathbed (2006)> explores, or rather invades, a rundown house left with its sheer bone structure, standing solitary on a white, endless wasteland, wearing a hood. The mysterious people he encounters, whose faces we never see, could be figments of his imagination or mere memories–the audience cannot tell. His works, as shown above, ambiguously points to a post-apocalyptic situation exposed to the madness of a lonely settler. Nevertheless, these horrible and grotesque figures retain a link to something in our own lives, ceaselessly absorbing our consciousness.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012　Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
2011　Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
　　　Frankfurter Kunstverein, Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden
2010　South by South West, Reykjanesbaer, Iceland
　　　Alessandromarenaproject, Turin, Italy
2007　Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012　EORUM SANAI , Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2011　Perspectives-On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
　　　SOUND FIE LDS, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
　　　Almost Tangible, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China