Margrét M. Norðdahl

Fine Art

About

Margrét lives and works in Reykjavík Iceland. She is a visual artist and works with drawings, text, paintings and installations,

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions. Including in The Living Art Museum, Listasafn ASÍ, Safnasafnið and Gallerí Gangur.

Her works are often research that take on a certain subject or a period. For example, reserchings people in the inbetween, waiting, admiring peoples and own mundane behavior, anxiety and vulnerability. Trying to find patterns in behavior and actions. Trying to understand people and the invisible rules of society.

She teaches art and is an activist for inclusion in art and art education.

Repeating mundane patterns

Rútinur II / Routines II

Repeating mundane patterns / Repeating mundane patterns

Drawings, print on canvas, yarn drawings on wall.

Gallerí Gangur

The exhibition features a man speaking fluently, a man smiling and stretching his hands to the ground, three women sitting on chairs with their hands in their laps waiting, three men sitting on a low wall with their backs turned to people on the sidewalk, a woman playing with emotion on an accordion (apparently), a man showing quick reflexes but who might be running away, a woman hugging a woman, and a woman outside an airport smoking and scrolling on her phone. The idea of the people is mirrored and repeated over and over.

(Every situation was multiplied and made into wallpaper. )

Repetition can be oppressive and even pathological, it can also contain beauty and power. By creating the repetition, the habit, the habit creates you and the humble mind bows for the heart. Nietzsche spoke of the eternal repetition: "What if one day or night a demon were to creep up on you in your most lonely solitude and say to you: "This life as you live it now and have lived it you will live again and countless times ; and there will be nothing new in it but every agony and every joy and every thought and every sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life will return to you, all in the same way and in the same order—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and this moment and myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!”

Hljóð Síbylja

The Constant Silent Noice

Hljóð Síbylja / Silent Constant Noice

Drawings, paintings, writings on wood and walls, yarn drawings on wall.

Safnasafnið Svalbarðsströnd

In the installation, several threads meet; Mr. Sky, towers over a sentence that is repeated in a cycle, and mirrored drawings of people that form a pattern. From the mouth of Mr. Sky comes sunshine. Sometimes the words slip out of line and another dark sentence intrudes, but it does not gain the upper hand, but rather feels like a soft but dangerous undercurrent. People and words form a pattern, and in between words and people is a space that forms another pattern.

The space was covered in writing. Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrö, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð, Hér ríkir kyrrð

Þetta verður allt í lagi

Þetta verður allt í lagi / Everything will be ok

Performance, photographs, yarn on wall, text.

Gallerí Veggur, Myndlistaskólinn í Reykjavík

IThe work consists of the statement ,,Everything will be all right'' and photographs of people taken after a certain process. The work is presented at a gallery, on social media and in public space.

The statement Everything will be ok is written with nails and yarn on the wall, and on the floor is a full-size photograph of a person. In addition, photographs with the same statement were circulated on social media are tagged #þettavarðuralltílagi. The photos were also published as stickers and stuck on bus seats and on lightpoles.

In the run-up to the exhibition, Margrét together with Hjördís Árnadóttir hosted events in which people were invited to participate. Each event involved a specific process of exercise, relaxation, meditation and healing. At the end of each event, participants were photographed. The event was repeated during the exhibition period.

Þetta verður allt í lagi

Behavior Patterns

Behaviour patterns I

Search for center

Rusty past in tunnels, smoke at the interchange and scorched windows, a green hunting jacket, military boots, a slab and a ray of sunlight breaking through a window on the top floor.

The work is the first part of a study entitled Behaviour Patterns. The research is a process of observation and exploration and is based on the methodology of creativity, intuition and flow. The materials of the study are made into continuous patterns, and from there they are transferred into a circular pattern, which is often called a mandala. The circular form of a mandala can lead us to an experience of wholeness where the mandala has a certain center or focal point from which the symmetrical pattern springs.

The form refers to the fact that each of us has a center to which everything is connected, everything is arranged through it and there is a source of energy and strength. Most spiritual and religious systems known speak of the existence of such an inner center.

The Hamraborg part of the exhibition and the research series is based on a study of a certain time and space, where part of the story is 200 Kópavogur, hang outs in various zip codes, the bus, Hamraborgin and the teenage years.

Arnar Hreiðarsson wrote music to the piece and Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl wrote a poem.

The Work, drawings, music, poem, was performed in whole in front of Hamraborg.

Behavior Patterns