――Where do you get your inspirations from?
I think it’s a mixed feeling of wants, sometimes even from craving, or when I go online to buy a new pair of shoes. I look at lots of things online and do a lot of experiments on photoshop, I think it’s a combination of objects and try to find some interesting relationship between them.
――I feel like your works, Instagram, and website are based on blue, any reason?
It’s my favourite colour because when you look at it on canvas with oil painting, it’s so intense, you feel like you looking at the screen, and I think that’s also a strong connection between the screen and the canvas. It’s just like you looking at the flat screen when it’s actually an oil painting.
――Have you had an exhibition before?
I’m working on my first solo exhibition now which is going to happen in January at Hverfisgallerí in Reykjavík. I’ve been in a group exhibitions before (“What it seems” at Kjarvalsstaðir, “Social Distancing” at Plan X Art Gallery in Milano as well as Untitled Art Fair in Miami ). This time I can work on the same project for such a long time, and I have a half year to work on the exhibition so I think it’s great. It just feels like I’m doing a marathon, I keep painting and painting, you know, so I think that’s a challenge for now.
――What’s your works’ strength?
I think it’s a combination of digital and realism, the contrast of the details, I think that’s the strongest part.
――What do you wish for your work?
I hope people can relate to the sense of longing and wanting something not be able to have it in their own way. Also, I hope people will be able to translate the kind of humour into their feelings of when they try to have a good time but failing.
――Do you think this current situation will impact the art scene as well?
Yes, I think at least for the last few months, it’s been changing a lot. The way people look at the art, it kind of made only us to stand in the gallery, which I think made everyone bit closer to art because everyone can explore us from all around the world. But it also kind of emphasizes the need for physicality, because when you look at the art online, you don’t get the same kind of sense of the scales and details, everything is the same size when you look at the screen and I think people don’t really realize it because people just go along with the screen. So I think it will either be totally online which is sad or people get sick of it. But either way, I think it will change for sure like how people communicate on the online exhibitions and showrooms, and also on Instagram. I think it’s also amazing to be able to do exhibitions online so more people can get involved without thinking about their places. I’ve seen people doing the online exhibition tour and I think it was good but I also thought it’s never the same to they actually go to it.
――What’s your next goal?
It’s the exhibition in January. All the works will be about the longing as well, and also moving on to like transparency. Representing transparency with oil painting is really hard, so I think that will be the big step.
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