March 27, 2012
Lectures, Readings and Discussions, Free Events
Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture: Katrin Sigurdardottir
5:30 pm
Lamar Dodd School of Art
S151
Sponsored by: Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Lamar Dodd School of Art
Contact: artinfo@uga.edu 706-542-1511
In her work, Katrin Sigurdardottir examines distance and memory and their embodiments in architecture, urbanism, cartography and traditional landscape representations. Sometimes there is a mnemonic aspect to the work, i.e. making the work is a process of spatial recall. The places created are frequently based on real places, points of departure, arrival or passage, places as minute at their spatial and temporal distance as the models she make of them. While alluding to real locations, her works question the verity of these places, as well as our account of them.
Sigurdardottir´s work crosses the boundary between perceptual and embodied space. She takes on the uneasy confrontation, when the viewer has to negotiate a new relationship with the miniature, see it as not representing other than itself, a disproportionate constructed object in the full-scale world.
“Sigurdardottir’s work reminds us that the production of space is a complex phenomenon, in which perceptual and representational aspects cannot be separated from function or use. A Henri Lefevbre wrote in his book The Production of Space, there is a triadic relation between conceived, perceived and lived space. Sigurdardottir works with a representational space that is conceptually used and perceptually lived.” - Giuliana Bruno
Katrin Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. In the last 15 years, her works have been shown extensively in Europe, North- and South America and are included in numerous public and private collections.
Katrin’s studio is in New York and she divides her time between Reykjavik and New York. Her most recent solo exhibitions include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Suburban, Chicago, Eleven Rivington, New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Galeria Leme Sao Paulo, Brazil and FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Katrin has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, Die Zeit, Vogue, Surface Magazine og L ́Officiel, Modern Painters, Contemporary Magazine, ArtNews, Flash Art and Kunstforum International.
This lecture is part of the 2011-2012 Visiting Artist/Scholar Series.
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