Isis Meander sýnir í Deiglunni

In a Time of Disruptions

Opening at Deiglan, Listagili.

Saturday December the 22nd. from 14 - 17



Also open Sunday December the 23rd. from 14-17




The metaphoric progress of a rolling snowball is the starting-point of Danish artist Isis Meander’s transformative, new photographic oeuvre, in which she has been greatly inspired by the Icelandic nature and has herein been drawn towards the mystifying unknown.

The works presented in this exhibition enclose impressions that nature independently has created in the surroundings of Akureyri, but at the same time indicate how we as analytic perceptive subjects often project own conceptions into these surroundings. Isis Meander is inspired by Sigmund Freud's definition of The Uncanny from his essay The Uncanny (1919). 
Isis Meander is depicting surroundings in which there is a disharmony and where something seems deviant which at the same time is defining her general artistic praxis.



The work Uncertain Times presented at Deiglan is a subtle abstract recreation of unpredictable phenomenons happening in nature. The unpredictable and undeterminable is a feeling much linked to this work. The zoetrope in which the images are installed invites the viewer to start the photographic animation, which ends abrupt and disturbingly (for the eye and mind).

In the photographic series Impending Memories it is obvious that the images play with ideas on psychologic tensions. She is interested in showing the small signs of lurking danger which are everyday scenes transformed into interpretation of a paranoid view of surroundings containing elements of nature.



Menace as a driving force is evident in these photographic works and connotations to aesthetic, psychological or philosophical reflections seems obvious and considerable. The fascination of unknown possibilities and unspecified lurking has inspired artists for decades. To a great extent Isis Meander does not differ. Her work encompasses the challenges, which lies in the apprehension of the unknown.

These matters, which her new series of work are concentrated on, are also deeply motivated by aspects of time and subject matter common to the metaphoric imagery of dystopic, imaginative landscapes.

Isis Meander’s practice is focussing on ideas of recollection, experience, gaze and relations; which has been primarily communicated through photographic media. These subjects play a central role in her concept of space and are often a "direct" response to what is an impression, understanding or experience of my immediate surroundings.

Isis Meander is educated from Malmö Art Academy (MFA) in 2008 and is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Guest artist at Gil Society, Akureyri.

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