The work explores issues of cultural negotiation, bridging the gap between the intimate and the spectacle, between inner and outer worlds. An exploration of misunderstandings when encountering local commodities. A series of video works about our relationship with objects, in this case a rare bird’s egg from the local supermarket, dried fish as cultural currency when read in Halldór Laxness’ ‘Iceland’s Bell,’ and a typical Icelandic jumper, which in reality had appeared in Moscow in the seventies, formerly belonging to the artist’s estranged father.

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photos: Nanna Klith Hougaard