Ósk Vilhjálmsdottir
Iceland
Born 1962
Meisterschülerin, pro. Valie Export 1994 "Hochschule der Künste"
Berlin 1988-1994 MHI/ the Icelandic Collage of Art and Crafts
1984-1986
The artist has worked with several projects where she has mapped
private and important occasions in people's lives independent of
cultural backgrounds. This through family-photographs which have
been projected against windows or tents by slides. Her artworks
often have an interactive character.
Arnarholl
During this summer the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin came for a
visit to Iceland. It was a quite controversial act of the Icelandic
president to receive him as a guest. A group of Falun Gong members
came to Iceland to protest. The photo was taken in the late afternoon
in the garden of Ingólfur Arnarsson. Ingólfur was a Norse Viking
who moved to Iceland 874 as the first settler. In the afternoon
some Falun Gong members are still doing some exercises with Ingólfur.
"Engey-settlement-bátur" 2002
Engey-settlement-bátur
Engey is an island only in a few kilometres of distance from the
harbour. Today nobody lives there except seabirds. The citizens
of Reykjavik, especially the emigrants living there, were invited
on a boat trip to the island to colonize it for a day…
