Wednesday, April 23, 2008


Drawings, sculptures, music experiments and videos of the Icelandic artist Gabriela Fridriksdottir (1971). One of the artists in Stepya. Check out her very cool stuff here www.gabriela.is/index_2.htm


A description of ”Operazione Oesophagus,” a small video installation/performance by Gabriela Fridriksdottir:


Working with a food processor, milk and powdered cocoa poured from a white sculpture of a head, Ms. Fridriksdottir covers herself in chocolatey goo, which she also drinks and regurgitates; emerges from and disappears into a slimy pod; and makes clever use of pantyhose and a mop head. The net results evoke an earlier phase of human ritual, if not evolution, while displaying considerable debt to earlier feminist artists like Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schneemann, Eva Hesse and Karen Finley, as well as to the king of Nordic camp, Odd Nerdrum. An imposing cavelike form made of sewn and stuffed gray felt makes the most lasting impression. Its strangeness of shape and detail carries over to Ms. Fridriksdottir’s somewhat gloppy biomorphic paintings enlivened by hairy details.


Sounds fantastic!

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