What? Opening of The Icelandic Photography Festival and the exhibition “…”
When? Thursday 16 January 2020 at 17:00
Where? Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Tryggvagata 15, Reykjavík.
Opening of The Icelandic Photography Festival and the exhibition “…”
The Icelandic Photography Festival opens on Thursday 16 January at 17:00 with the exhibition titled “···” with photographs by Valdimar Thorlacius.
The exhibition “···” is a visual interpretation of Valdemar’s perception of small towns, weather and wide-open spaces in Iceland, and at the same time a documentation of village life. He travelled between places which fulfilled certain criteria, based on Statistics Iceland’s definition of the size and composition of urban communities with up to 500 inhabitants.
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“I photographed whatever attracted my attention in the villages – the surroundings of the people who live in these communities – and placed it in a broader context: Iceland, the island, says the photographer. The objective is not to present some absolute truth about life in small Icelandic towns. I show selected moments, and invite the observer to fill in the gaps. It is almost impossible to approach absolute truth in a photograph, as the interpretation is always that of the observer. The reality of the works is thus a joint conclusion of what was photographed and the perceptions of the observer of the photographs.” – Valdimar Thorlacius
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Free admission to the museum during the festival 16-19 January.
Valdimar Thorlacius studied photography at the School of Photography in Reykjavík, graduating in 2014. His degree project, 1-ONE, was published in book form after the degree show and received a grant from the Magnús Ólafsson Memorial Fund that year. In 2015 he held his first solo show at the National Museum of Iceland, comprising pictures from 1-One, coinciding with the publication of the second edition of the book by Crymogea. The work has been shown at exhibitions abroad, notably a solo show at the Les Boréales arts festival in France in 2017.
Reykjavik City museum – Valdimar Thorlacius
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Further information about the photographer: Valdimar Thorlacius
For information about the Icelandic Photography Festival: http://tipf.is/
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