Body is a stream POSTPONED UNTIL 29.10.25

Body is a Stream

Group Exhibition — SÍM Residency, October 2025

October 29, 2025 | 4:00–8:00 PM

SÍM Hlöðuloftið, Korpúlfsstaðir, Thorsvegur 1, 112 Reykjavík

Live performance by Rán duo from 6:00–7:00 PM

The exhibition Body is a Stream gathers together the work of SÍM Residency’s October artists-in-residence, who present art as a living current, a moment in flow rather than a fixed arrival. Each project unfolds as a form of embodied research, an ongoing inquiry into how we move through land, sound, memory, and each other. The “body,” here, is both a vessel and a landscape: porous, shifting, and interconnected. The “stream” gestures toward time, ecology, and imagination,  a reminder that creation, like water, does not stand still.

From the biological to the emotional, the sonic to the sculptural, the participating artists trace how inner and outer worlds converge. Together, their works form an ecosystem of gestures listening, touching, resonating that extends from the environment into the self, and from the individual into the collective.

Rán duo - Ida Nørby (DK) & Melissa Achten (USA)

In their interactive sound installation and live performance, Rán duo weave a web of resonance from harp, cello, found objects, and stories gathered during their time in Iceland. Their practice of spontaneous composition transforms listening into touch, and sound into movement, a live dialogue between presence and place. The work invites the audience to enter the flow, where music, memory, and materiality coalesce into a single current.

Matt Siegle (USA)

Siegle’s sculptures and drawings channel the quiet intelligence of natural forms, the pulse of biology, the architecture of the land. His works act as fossils of gesture, fragments of the organic reimagined through human making. The artist’s engagement with matter becomes a meditation on growth, decay, and transformation, a reminder that the body of the earth is never still.

James Lattanzio (USA)

In Við Erum Náttúran (“We Are Nature”), Lattanzio offers a meditative installation combining video, sound, cyanotypes. His work reconnects the sensory and the spiritual, bridging human perception with the slow breathing of land and water. Blue becomes both a color and a state of calm, of depth, of belonging evoking the elemental intimacy between body and environment.

Mateu Planelles (USA)

Planelles’ research-based work investigates queerness within the perceived emptiness of the American West, a terrain of vast isolation and quiet tenderness. Through visceral imagery and textured materiality, he reimagines the landscape as a queer body, simultaneously desolate and intimate. Here, the open horizon becomes a mirror, a space of reflection and reinvention, where solitude is not absence but potential.

Emma Sarpaniemi (FI)

Sarpaniemi continues to explore her new body of work, Snake Lifter , through daily life observations in Iceland. Using the landscape as her studio, she reunites with her loving playhorse, Milky, for the third time. Playgrounds, colors, daily life observations, and flea-market treasure-hunting for props and clothing create a foundation for the artist’s new self-portraits. In the exhibition, Sarpaniemi invites the viewer to peek into her process and photoshoots rather than presenting the final images. 

Body is a Stream reflects on the ways in which artistic practice itself is a form of movement a flowing through ideas, places, and identities. The exhibition becomes a temporary confluence where individual investigations merge into collective experience, where each artist’s current work feeds into a shared estuary of becoming.

Join us for this one-evening event to meet the artists, experience their evolving works, and immerse yourself in the living stream of sound, form, and reflection.