Saturday the 28th. of April 2012 the sculpture SYLT / SÍLD – Island On The Island, by the artist group GV will be celebratory opened. The project was developed during a 4 week residency at Skaftfell – Center For Visual Art. The shown sculpture on the landfill area is sketched after the shape of the northern German island of Sylt formerly written as Sild (herring) The opening will take place at the Bookshop – projectspace at 17:00 and thereafter continue at the landfill where the sculpture will be officially declared open.

looped video, 10 min. 20.03.12 – 24.03.12. Shown daily from 20:00-22:00 at The Bookshop – projectspace window Untitled (speechless) by Fernando José Pereira (Porto, 1961), current artist in Residence at Skaftfell – Center For Visual Art. Untitled (speechless) is a work about dissatisfaction and reality. The video contains only a fixed plan of a room with a very long table with chairs on both sides. The plan was taken in central perspective and the image suggests a strange connection to paintings from the renaissance period. A person moves from chair to chair sitting only for brief moments in a gradual climax of dissatisfaction […]

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