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Country: Iceland
Year at Headlands: 2009
Discipline: visual
Program: artist in residence
Elín Hansdóttir’s site-specific installations take many forms, including auditory or optical illusions, labyrinthian tunnels and motion-activated architectural elements. She creates self-contained worlds that seem to operate under their own set of rules, completely transforming a benign space into one that defies expectations and seems only to exist at a particular moment in time. Though her installations are complex in construction and technical craft, they take on a stark aesthetic, so that her work operates as a kind of blank slate for viewer experience and interaction. She has created and installed work in a number of internationally venues including the National Gallery of Iceland, Frieze Art Fair, London and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. She holds a Magister (MA) from the KHB Berlin-Weissensee and a BA from the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
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Peripheral, 2006, light installation, dimensions variable
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