Svanhildur Halla Haraldsdรณttir Portfolio 2016
NORDEN 2015
Found objects - Woven map. 137x185 cm.
A map is a tool that affects the way we perceive and think about the world around us. Humans have transformed their environment and living conditions. In a man made world, organisms and natural things have been alterd and put in a certan order so they may better serve his purposes.
VERALDARVEFUR/WORLD WIDE WEB 2015
Photograph: Woven map.
18x18 cm
CONVERSATION / SAMSKIPTI 2016
VIDEO 02:12 min
The thread became a platform to explore human relationships and social structures. Bonds of friendship and blood ties. Meeting over a cup of coffee. Repeating situations. Plaster casts of coffee cups, that were passed down as family heirloom, became a shadow of history and tradition.
BLUE PLANET / BLÁI HNÖTTURINN 2016
INSTALLATION Mixed media - Thread, iron pipe and trash found on a beach.
FLĂ“RA Ă?SLANDS Blue is the favorite color. Color is a not natural but a social phenomenon and a cultural construct. Blue is the favorite color. Heroes in the Icelandic sagas wore blue, Icelandic painters favor blue and poets write about the blue flower. Blue is the favorite color. The knowledge of how the color blue can be extracted from Icelandic flora is lost.
Searching for blue / Flรณra ร slands 2016
INSTALLATION Mixed media - Thread, water, glass, mirror, hot plate, pot, woodenframe, flowers(Campanula rotundifolia/ Geranium sylvaticum), blueberries(bog bilberry) flower pressed on paper, cottonsheed, sheepwool, synthetic fabric.
Labour / Flรณra ร slands 2016 Mixed media - Thread, wood found near the ocean, bedsheeds dyed with flowers (Campanula rotundifolia/ Geranium sylvaticum/ Wild Thyme/ Lupinus nootkatensis)
Harvesting colors / FlĂłra Ă?slands 2016
Cottonthread, clothespins and flowerprint on paper. (Campanula rotundifolia/ Geranium sylvaticum/ Wild Thyme/ Lupinus nootkatensis)
HERITAGE / ARFUR 2016
INSTALLATION / INNSETNING Spun sheepwool, knitted and woven. Thread, wood and bones.
FINDING CONTROL IN UNCONTROLABLE SITUATIONS ​2016 INSTALLATION Cottonthread, mixed leftover thread and yarn spunn together.
Spinning out of control is a phrase often used to describe the world today. No control. Spinning out of hands. Yet textiles often have comforting properties and the slow methods of producing thread can be used to find balance. Becoming one with the work. It is a tradition to knit a piece of clothing or a blanked to welcome a new born baby into the family. I took leftover yarn my mother had used to knit. Combing them apart to spin new threads gave me time to contemplate and explore the material I had in my hands. Why so much pink?
CONFIRMATION - FRESHMAN DANCE - GALA DANCE FERMING - BUSABALL - ÁRSHÁTÍÐ 2016
INSTALLATION Chalkboard, chalk, cottonthread, teared down dresses.
Confronting relationships, distorted memories and emotional conntection with clothes by tearing down dresses connected to passed events and spinning them into threads.
2016 Reykjavík