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BLINDSPOT | Artist Talk and Screening

Spöngin 41, 112 Reykjavík

Dates
Borgarbókasafnið Spönginni
15, May 2021
Open from 12.00pm - 2.00pm

Website https://borgarbokasafn.is/en/event/exhibitions/blindspot-artist-talk
General Admission See on official website

An artist talk by two exhibiting artists in the group exhibition Blindspot: Hugo Llanes and Claire Paugam. After the artist talk we will be screening two short films by a third exhibiting artist: Salad Hilowle.
See exhibition event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/765202064098691
FULL PROGRAM: https://borgarbokasafn.is/en/blindspot

Hugo Llanes graduated from the MA Fine Art Program at Listahaskoli Islands. Llanes’s practice investigates political-social fissures and the aesthetics that erupt from them. His works involve extended painting, site-specific performance and installation. By inquiring about social conditions like migration, exploitation, and decolonized processes of identity and their particularities, he articulates projects of a participatory nature and others of a more contemplative character. He believes that the personal is a microsystem that is exposed to a global sphere.
Claire Paugam is a multidisciplinary French artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She is the recipient of the Icelandic Art Prize Motivational Award of the Year 2020 for her ambitious and powerful contribution to the Icelandic art scene in 2019. After graduating in 2016 from the Iceland University of the Arts’ MFA program, she exhibited in various art institutions in Iceland and abroad, such as the 5th International Biennale for Young Art, Deep Inside, curated by Nadim Samman. She also creates interactive stage designs for concerts and installations with new media artist Raphaël Alexandre.
Salad Hilowle is an artist based in Sweden, Stockholm who graduated from the Royal Art of Academy of Sweden, Stockholm in 2020. In his work, Hilowle manages to pack a visceral range of childhood memories, connected with his Somali diaspora and Swedish art history. His themes revolve around identity, memories, place and visibility. Hilowle is behind the praised short films Erinra, Letters to Sweden and Waryaa. His fine-tuned and poetic films have been shown at festivals around the world and won prizes in Sweden. In 2015 he was one of two artists who got to share Engmansstipendiet, one of Sweden's largest art scholarship.
In 2020, he was awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship by the Academy of Fine Arts for his work to make people of African descent visible in Swedish art history.

While we screen the films in the exhibition room, we will have a workshop for children (10-15) upstairs led by writer Yrsa Þöll Gylfadóttir.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2960856194016871

Hugo and Claire's artwork will be exhibited in the Reykjavik City Library in Spöngin until April 11th and you can visit the exhibition during regular opening hours.

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