Virtual Exhibition: SÍM Residency - Entangled with the Land

SÍM Residency presents Entangled with the Land — a group exhibition by artists-in-residence originally on view at SÍM Hlöðuloftið in August 2025, the exhibition is now available as a virtual experience until December 4th.

Follow the link to enter the virtual exhibition https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zksd5tFz3Zy

Under the title Entangled with the Land, the exhibition reflects the many ways in which artistic practice can meet, respond to, and become intertwined with place. The participating artists, coming from diverse international backgrounds, have immersed themselves in the Icelandic landscape: its materiality, its mythologies, and its shifting ecologies. Their works explore how land is experienced not only as surface or resource, but as memory, as rhythm, as a living presence entangled with human gesture, perception, and imagination.

Through experiments in moving image, installation, sculpture, digital rendering, sound, and material transformation, the exhibition reveals layered encounters with environment and belonging. Here, land is not a backdrop but an active co-creator: shaping, resisting, and imprinting itself within artistic processes.

As a temporary convergence of practices, Entangled with the Land gestures towards the fragile yet generative connections that emerge in moments of residency. It opens a space where traces of forest, stone, water, and play intersect with questions of ecology, intimacy, and cultural narratives by inviting audiences to consider their own entanglement with the places they inhabit.

Participating artists:

Xiyao Chen she/they - GB/CN

Alessandra Carosi she/her - IT/FR

Melissa Ellen Schwarz she/her - DE/GB

Julija Pociūtė she/her - LT

Andrea Scippe she/her - FR

Riika Anundi she/her - FI