Unknown Affection at Hafnarborg

Tenderness at Hafnarborg Gallery

Thórhildur Tinna Sigurdardóttir is the curator of the exhibition Unknown Affection, currently open at Hafnarborg Gallery in Hafnarfjordur. For Hafnarborg’s autumn exhibition, she brings together fourteen female artists in a showcase that emerges from the need to find magic and enchantment in times when everything seems to require definition, often leading to dullness and a lack of joy. This is an exhibition about tenderness, which is essentially just affection and joy, a celebration of color that is strongly present in the exhibition. Unknown Affection is at once thought-provoking and nourishing, as summer ends and autumn begins. The fourteen participating artists are Björg Thorsteinsdóttir (IS), Edda Karólína (IS), Elsa Jónsdóttir (IS), Hildur Hákonardóttir (IS), Juliana Irene Smith (US/FI), Kate McMillan (UK), Kata Jóhanness (IS), Kristín Morthens (IS), Ra Tack (BE), Patty Spyrakos (US), Sigrídur Björnsdóttir (IS), Suzanne Treister (UK), Tabita Rezaire (FR), and Tinna Gudmundsdóttir (IS). Hulda Hákonardóttir, born in 1938, is the oldest of the artists, while Kata Jóhanness, born in 1994, is the youngest, nearly sixty years her junior.