{"id":7912,"date":"2019-01-15T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzine.is\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:32:20","slug":"reflections-on-belonging-ingibjorg-fridriksdottir-at-ctrl-shft-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzine.is\/?p=7912","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Belonging: Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir at Ctrl Shft Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8220;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8220;on&#8220; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8220;on|desktop&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.22&#8243; custom_padding_tablet=&#8220;50px|0|50px|0&#8243; custom_padding_phone=&#8220;&#8220; transparent_background=&#8220;off&#8220; padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220;][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=&#8220;https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Vi\u00f0talsmynd.jpg&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.15&#8243; animation=&#8220;off&#8220;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8220;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8220;on|desktop&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;section&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.22&#8243; custom_padding_tablet=&#8220;50px|0|50px|0&#8243; custom_padding_phone=&#8220;&#8220; transparent_background=&#8220;off&#8220; padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220;][et_pb_row padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220; column_padding_mobile=&#8220;on&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8220;initial&#8220; background_position=&#8220;top_left&#8220; background_repeat=&#8220;repeat&#8220;][et_pb_column type=&#8220;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8220;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8220;|||&#8220; custom_padding__hover=&#8220;|||&#8220;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8220;off&#8220; date_format=&#8220;j.m. Y&#8220; featured_image=&#8220;off&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;4.7.7&#8243; title_font=&#8220;|300||on|||||&#8220; title_text_align=&#8220;center&#8220; title_font_size=&#8220;40px&#8220; title_letter_spacing=&#8220;1px&#8220; title_all_caps=&#8220;on&#8220; background_color=&#8220;rgba(255,255,255,0)&#8220; parallax=&#8220;on&#8220; parallax_method=&#8220;off&#8220; max_width=&#8220;100%&#8220; title_font_size_tablet=&#8220;30px&#8220; title_font_size_phone=&#8220;26px&#8220; title_font_size_last_edited=&#8220;on|phone&#8220; use_border_color=&#8220;off&#8220; border_color=&#8220;#ffffff&#8220; border_style=&#8220;solid&#8220; parallax_effect=&#8220;on&#8220; module_bg_color=&#8220;rgba(255,255,255,0)&#8220; global_module=&#8220;3887&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8220;all&#8220;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8220;3.27.4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In the downtown district of Oakland, California, sound artist Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir opened her latest installation work, <em>Reflecting<\/em>, in a group exhibition at the Ctrl Shft Collective, <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>. Entering into a urban warehouse building, piercing blue eyes blink out at the viewer from a projected video screen in a black box room. There is a subtle overlapping chatter, conversation from that of a fortune teller woman. The viewer is bombarded with sound from all corners, and one can almost picture the kitch fortune ball and tacky decorations. There is an element of \u2018otherness\u2019 and yet an immediate relatability to this voice. We know her, this woman, without having to know her, her vague and generic fortune tellings to which one is so desperately prepared to apply any aspect of truth or meaning to our own lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir is an Icelandic artist who defines her practice as somewhere between a composer and an installation artist. Ingibj\u00f6rg has worked collaboratively throughout her career with filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, fashion designers, and photographers. She recently moved back to Reykjavik after completing an MFA at Mills College and working in the Bay Area for three years. When she first moved to California, Ingibj\u00f6rg describes \u2018listening\u2019 to the culture to learn its rules, history and sensitivities; \u201cI had to listen to learn, to be able to form my own opinions in that culture and I had to learn that even though I felt very foreign in this culture, I would be a portrait as a certain type of human based on my gender, my ethnicity etc. You have to learn what is expected of you as that person you are seen as, even if you feel you don\u2019t have anything in common with the group you are now categorized within.\u201d Whilst Ingibj\u00f6rg\u2019s home roots are in Iceland, her practice is quite dually based, and I found it compelling to learn how she navigates, professionally and personally, between these two worlds she has laid claim to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ctrl Shft is an artist run organization and non profit art collective in the center of Oakland, providing artist studios to members, who pay rent and collaboratively put on exhibitions in the common exhibition space. The urban warehouse building is located in the downtown center of Oakland, and is almost hidden from the street, with no visible sign or marker. A new visitor wouldn\u2019t quite know what to expect upon entering this experimental art space, as I didn\u2019t. The collective and its members is largely queer and nonconforming to binary and heteronormative stereotypes, working to represent marginalized communities in their studio spaces. Ctrl Shft feels reminiscent to OPEN, N\u00fdlistasafni\u00f0, and Kling og Bang, to name a few artist collectives in Reykjavik that are achieving similar success. However, community oriented, artist studio and dually functioning exhibition spaces are few and far between in Reykjavik, especially those that specifically attempt to bridge the gap between marginalized communities and professional art opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7950 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The show, <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>, was co-curated by Colombian artist Susana Eslava and Carolina Magis Weinberg. Susana moved to the Bay Area in 2015 through an MFA grant, and is currently developing projects between Bogot\u00e1 and the Bay Area. Her practice is interdisciplinary and explores themes of migration, colonization, and the intersections between social relations, art and politics. Among the participating artists were Ingibj\u00f6rg, Susana, Carolina, Ana Mar\u00eda Montenegro Jaramillo, Enar de Dios Rodr\u00edguez, Shaghayegh Cyrous, and Patricia Leal. All of the artists are international to the Bay Area, but share the common connection that each has based their practice here in California at some point along their journeys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibiting artists in <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>, as Susana explains, are \u201cin a state of otherness. They think in different languages, and create in a constant state of translation. They create in the impasse of the outside\u2026engaging into conversations about what it meant to have an art practice \u2013and a life\u2013 from a dislocated position. <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em> refers to the circular movement of a planet around a gravitational force which inevitably, takes it back to its initial position.\u201d The exhibition explores thematics of inside\/outside relations, acceptance, nativeness, discrimination, and belonging. Issues of gender, power dynamics, identity, locality, and politics are at play. These elements provide an effective connecting point to art life in Iceland, where so many feel like a constant outsider to Icelandic culture despite maintaining an artistic practice in the country for many years. This struggle is universal, apparently, for acceptance and belonging, to be from somewhere. How do we belong to and from any place?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite these elements of inaccessibility and otherness that seems connected to experiences both in the Bay Area and in Iceland, Ingibj\u00f6rg comments on their similarly community and locally oriented natures when comparing the Bay Area to the art scene in Iceland. She states, \u201cone similarity that surprised me was that I was not expecting to be running into the same people over and over again, like frequently happens in the art scene in Iceland. So soon it felt like \u2018home.\u2019\u201d She values being able to connect with artists on such a familial and intimate level in her homeland; \u201cI think it is unique in Iceland that it is very easy to connect with people, even the most successful artists are not that unreachable, and because of how similar we all are we sometimes operate as a one big family.\u201d With that being said, the Bay Area opened up many opportunities for her, and she describes how \u2018small\u2019 Iceland feels in many ways since; \u201cI think how similar we are creates limitation in how we sometimes think in Iceland. I didn\u2019t realize how little I really knew about the world before I lived in the Bay Area and was blessed with so many international friends that have taught me so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To add to a level of accessibility in the show, the exhibition text is presented in each of the languages of the artist\u2019s home countries. In Ingibj\u00f6rg\u00b4s <em>Reflecting<\/em>, the description explains that before moving back to Iceland from the Bay Area, she visited two psychics to \u201cmake sense of the crossroads.\u201d Ingibj\u00f6rg explains that we are constantly trying to \u201cpredict the future through tangible concepts\u201d, seeking answers and meaning to our being. Like she explains in Icelandic, \u201cr\u00fdmi\u00f0 er gj\u00f6r\u00f3l\u00edkt, eftir \u00fev\u00ed hverju \u00fe\u00fa tr\u00fair.\u201d This piece creates its meaning through its audience, we see and experience what we personally believe and look for, whether it is a skepticism or a blind acceptance of truth. \u201cThis creates two worlds, intertwining within the same space while simultaneously challenging each other&#8217;s existence. As Ingibj\u00f6rg reflects on her own past, present and future, she invites the audience to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7945 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7951 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sound echoes out from the black box and through the entire exhibition space, referencing the constant permeating of these messages out and into our everyday lives and existence. In her sound installations Ingibj\u00f6rg frequently works with multi-speaker sound systems to create this surrounding effect. She tells me, \u201cI put equal emphasize on sound and visual aspect. I believe that the visual will affect the aural experience, so it is important that those two aspects complement each other. None of my installations have been site specific, but it\u2019s important that with each installation that the space also compliment both audible and visual part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of current projects on the horizon, Ingibj\u00f6rg is planning an installation with a traditional string quartet and live improvisation. She is also collaborating with two Chinese artists in the Bay Area of a dance film based on a previously enacted performance piece, dealing with similar thematics as <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s about being foreign in a new culture, the things you bring with you and the distance to you home. The dancer is dressed in water sleeves, a traditional Chinese costume, that has traditionally strict dance movements but bringing it to a new culture she is reinventing herself and the movements possible with that custom. It all began with long conversations at the dinner table, where we would also share our culture through food. Soon those conversations transformed into pieces of art, where we were building a bridge of understanding of each other and deepen understanding of cultural differences. Sophia plays a traditional Chinese instrument called Pipa but plays it a very untraditional way. In this specific piece, I am creating the soundscape, partly with using my own voice singing and reciting an Icelandic poem by Anna Mars\u00edbil Clausen that was specifically composed for the performance piece. My favorite line in the poem is about how the sea should be gray, with tall waves. It is one of those things you don\u2019t really think about when you grow up in a certain place, but when you are far away you start missing those things, like a certain color of the ocean that you don\u2019t see in the new place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Dar\u00eda S\u00f3l Andrews<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">Ctrl Shft Collective<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ctrlshftcollective.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ctrlshftcollective.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">More about the artists:<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ingibjorgf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ingibjorgf.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carolinamagisweinberg.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carolinamagisweinberg.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montenegrojaramillo.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">montenegrojaramillo.info<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enardediosrodriguez.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enardediosrodriguez.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shcyrous.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shcyrous.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanaeslava.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.susanaeslava.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricialeal.art\">www.patricialeal.art<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the downtown district of Oakland, California, sound artist Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir opened her latest installation work, Reflecting, in a group exhibition at the Ctrl Shft Collective, Traslaci\u00f3n. Entering into a urban warehouse building, piercing blue eyes blink out at the viewer from a projected video screen in a black box room. There is a subtle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In the downtown district of Oakland, California, sound artist Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir opened her latest installation work, <em>Reflecting<\/em>, in a group exhibition at the Ctrl Shft Collective, <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>. Entering into a urban warehouse building, piercing blue eyes blink out at the viewer from a projected video screen in a black box room. There is a subtle overlapping chatter, conversation from that of a fortune teller woman. The viewer is bombarded with sound from all corners, and one can almost picture the kitch fortune ball and tacky decorations. There is an element of \u2018otherness\u2019 and yet an immediate relatability to this voice. We know her, this woman, without having to know her, her vague and generic fortune tellings to which one is so desperately prepared to apply any aspect of truth or meaning to our own lives.<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ingibj\u00f6rg Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir is an Icelandic artist who defines her practice as somewhere between a composer and an installation artist. Ingibj\u00f6rg has worked collaboratively throughout her career with filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, fashion designers, and photographers. She recently moved back to Reykjavik after completing an MFA at Mills College and working in the Bay Area for three years. When she first moved to California, Ingibj\u00f6rg describes \u2018listening\u2019 to the culture to learn its rules, history and sensitivities; \u201cI had to listen to learn, to be able to form my own opinions in that culture and I had to learn that even though I felt very foreign in this culture, I would be a portrait as a certain type of human based on my gender, my ethnicity etc. You have to learn what is expected of you as that person you are seen as, even if you feel you don\u2019t have anything in common with the group you are now categorized within.\u201d Whilst Ingibj\u00f6rg\u2019s home roots are in Iceland, her practice is quite dually based, and I found it compelling to learn how she navigates, professionally and personally, between these two worlds she has laid claim to.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ctrl Shft is an artist run organization and non profit art collective in the center of Oakland, providing artist studios to members, who pay rent and collaboratively put on exhibitions in the common exhibition space. The urban warehouse building is located in the downtown center of Oakland, and is almost hidden from the street, with no visible sign or marker. A new visitor wouldn\u2019t quite know what to expect upon entering this experimental art space, as I didn\u2019t. The collective and its members is largely queer and nonconforming to binary and heteronormative stereotypes, working to represent marginalized communities in their studio spaces. Ctrl Shft feels reminiscent to OPEN, N\u00fdlistasafni\u00f0, and Kling og Bang, to name a few artist collectives in Reykjavik that are achieving similar success. However, community oriented, artist studio and dually functioning exhibition spaces are few and far between in Reykjavik, especially those that specifically attempt to bridge the gap between marginalized communities and professional art opportunities.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The show, <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>, was co-curated by Colombian artist Susana Eslava and Carolina Magis Weinberg. Susana moved to the Bay Area in 2015 through an MFA grant, and is currently developing projects between Bogot\u00e1 and the Bay Area. Her practice is interdisciplinary and explores themes of migration, colonization, and the intersections between social relations, art and politics. Among the participating artists were Ingibj\u00f6rg, Susana, Carolina, Ana Mar\u00eda Montenegro Jaramillo, Enar de Dios Rodr\u00edguez, Shaghayegh Cyrous, and Patricia Leal. All of the artists are international to the Bay Area, but share the common connection that each has based their practice here in California at some point along their journeys.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibiting artists in <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>, as Susana explains, are \u201cin a state of otherness. They think in different languages, and create in a constant state of translation. They create in the impasse of the outside\u2026engaging into conversations about what it meant to have an art practice \u2013and a life\u2013 from a dislocated position. <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em> refers to the circular movement of a planet around a gravitational force which inevitably, takes it back to its initial position.\u201d The exhibition explores thematics of inside\/outside relations, acceptance, nativeness, discrimination, and belonging. Issues of gender, power dynamics, identity, locality, and politics are at play. These elements provide an effective connecting point to art life in Iceland, where so many feel like a constant outsider to Icelandic culture despite maintaining an artistic practice in the country for many years. This struggle is universal, apparently, for acceptance and belonging, to be from somewhere. How do we belong to and from any place?<\/p><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-7947 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-7950 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-7945 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-7951 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_3436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite these elements of inaccessibility and otherness that seems connected to experiences both in the Bay Area and in Iceland, Ingibj\u00f6rg comments on their similarly community and locally oriented natures when comparing the Bay Area to the art scene in Iceland. She states, \u201cone similarity that surprised me was that I was not expecting to be running into the same people over and over again, like frequently happens in the art scene in Iceland. So soon it felt like \u2018home.\u2019\u201d She values being able to connect with artists on such a familial and intimate level in her homeland; \u201cI think it is unique in Iceland that it is very easy to connect with people, even the most successful artists are not that unreachable, and because of how similar we all are we sometimes operate as a one big family.\u201d With that being said, the Bay Area opened up many opportunities for her, and she describes how \u2018small\u2019 Iceland feels in many ways since; \u201cI think how similar we are creates limitation in how we sometimes think in Iceland. I didn\u2019t realize how little I really knew about the world before I lived in the Bay Area and was blessed with so many international friends that have taught me so much.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To add to a level of accessibility in the show, the exhibition text is presented in each of the languages of the artist\u2019s home countries. In Ingibj\u00f6rg\u00b4s <em>Reflecting<\/em>, the description explains that before moving back to Iceland from the Bay Area, she visited two psychics to \u201cmake sense of the crossroads.\u201d Ingibj\u00f6rg explains that we are constantly trying to \u201cpredict the future through tangible concepts\u201d, seeking answers and meaning to our being. Like she explains in Icelandic, \u201cr\u00fdmi\u00f0 er gj\u00f6r\u00f3l\u00edkt, eftir \u00fev\u00ed hverju \u00fe\u00fa tr\u00fair.\u201d This piece creates its meaning through its audience, we see and experience what we personally believe and look for, whether it is a skepticism or a blind acceptance of truth. \u201cThis creates two worlds, intertwining within the same space while simultaneously challenging each other's existence. As Ingibj\u00f6rg reflects on her own past, present and future, she invites the audience to do the same.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sound echoes out from the black box and through the entire exhibition space, referencing the constant permeating of these messages out and into our everyday lives and existence. In her sound installations Ingibj\u00f6rg frequently works with multi-speaker sound systems to create this surrounding effect. She tells me, \u201cI put equal emphasize on sound and visual aspect. I believe that the visual will affect the aural experience, so it is important that those two aspects complement each other. None of my installations have been site specific, but it\u2019s important that with each installation that the space also compliment both audible and visual part.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of current projects on the horizon, Ingibj\u00f6rg is planning an installation with a traditional string quartet and live improvisation. She is also collaborating with two Chinese artists in the Bay Area of a dance film based on a previously enacted performance piece, dealing with similar thematics as <em>Traslaci\u00f3n<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s about being foreign in a new culture, the things you bring with you and the distance to you home. The dancer is dressed in water sleeves, a traditional Chinese costume, that has traditionally strict dance movements but bringing it to a new culture she is reinventing herself and the movements possible with that custom. It all began with long conversations at the dinner table, where we would also share our culture through food. Soon those conversations transformed into pieces of art, where we were building a bridge of understanding of each other and deepen understanding of cultural differences. Sophia plays a traditional Chinese instrument called Pipa but plays it a very untraditional way. In this specific piece, I am creating the soundscape, partly with using my own voice singing and reciting an Icelandic poem by Anna Mars\u00edbil Clausen that was specifically composed for the performance piece. My favorite line in the poem is about how the sea should be gray, with tall waves. 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