SÍM Residency - Samsýning - Drift / Tip the Point Art/Earth

Verið hjartanlega velkomin á samsýningu belgískra listamanna í gestalistamannadvöl SÍM, Seljavegi 32.

Sýningin er opin föstudaginn 27. feb. frá kl. 17:00 – 20:00 og laugardaginn 28. feb. frá kl. 13:00 – 15:00.

Sýningin markar fyrsta áfangann í gagnkvæmu verkefni á milli gestalistamanna SÍM og Stray Light í gegnum framtakið Art/Earth: Jöklaminni, verkefni gestalistamanna sem kannar listræn viðbrögð við loftslagsbreytingum og viðkvæmum vistkerfum. Verkefnið er unnið í samstarfi við The Young Academy og Háskóla Íslands og byggist á vísindalegum rannsóknum þeirra.

Í mars 2026 munu þrír íslenskir listamenn, Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir, Vala Jónsdóttir og Julie Sjöfn Gasiglia ásamt sýningarstjóranum Þórönnu Dögg Björnsdóttir, taka þátt í eins mánaðar gestadvöl hjá C-TAKT í Dommelhof, Neerpelt í Belgíu, eða frá 2. mars til 4. apríl.

Ísgerð smáhýsi Kevins Trappeniers munu birtast í borgarlandi Reykjavíkur þar sem þau bráðna og umbreytast smám saman. Íshúsin virka sem ljóðræn merki um viðkvæmni og samtengingu, áminning þess að hreyfing íslenskra jökla hefur áhrif langt út fyrir landssteinana.

Curator: Nicolas Baeyens

Drift / Tip the Point is the first public work-in-progress presentation within a transdisciplinary trajectory by the Belgian artists Kevin Trappeniers, Mattias De Craene and Stijn Demeulenaere. During a residency at SÍM in Iceland, they explored how a landscape in transformation can function as a barometer of global climate shifts.

The exhibition marks the beginning of a sustainable collaboration between artists and scientists, in which climate change is approached not only as an ecological crisis, but also as a crisis of imagination.

The visitor enters a space where slowness and rupture resonate together. Small, uncanny and sparse sounds, emerging from melting ice and breaking ice masses, fill the space without becoming dominant. Water trickles. Falling stones produce clear tones. What disappears sounds pure, but it is collective chaos.

Iceland appears as an accumulation of contradictions. Photographic images form a wall that suggests harmony, while beneath the surface, acceleration and loss unfold. The landscape feels sublime and unreal; the transformation is radical. What is brutal is shown gently.

Small ice sculptures, in dialogue with video work, refer to our human and urban structures. As you watch, they melt. Installed both within the gallery and in situ in ReykjavÍk, the houses exist as temporary presences: recognizable forms that slowly surrender to their environment, as opposed to the glacial forms that surrender to human interference. The change of state is not a metaphor but a real event unfolding in real time. The visitor becomes a witness to a small-scale durational collapse. In witnessing this gradual disappearance, the visitor becomes implicated, not as a distant observer, but as someone sharing the same time and atmosphere as the work itself, thus holding the potential to intervene. Each presence becomes both the end and the beginning of a new loop at a tipping point.

The experience is direct, aesthetic, and destabilising.

partners: Samband íslenskra Myndlistarmanna (SIM), Young Academy, C-TAKT, University Of Iceland, Space-oriented Artistic Practice (SOAP), Werkplaats Walter, ICELINK, BAC ART LAB, EOS Science Magazine

With the support of: the Flemish Government, the city of Leuven