Challenge
Listasafn Árnesinga / LÁ Art Museum | 2015-01-24 - 2015-04-23

Challenge – Sustainability in Art

Excerpts from the exhibitions catalogue:

....All the artwork in this exhibition relate to the discourse on sustainability and the ethical issues invoved in a society's development. Sustainability includes overlapping environmental, economic, cultural and social factors. Changes within each factor can always affect the other and development can only be sustainable if it takes into account all these factors. It is important to keep in mind the benefits and need for sharing of common resources that need to be protected and utilized in a sensible way. In such a society one's living standards are not achieved at the cost of others, nor does it reduce opportunities to improve living standards. This is why we should ensure that we do not exploit natural resources beyond their capacity to renew themselves.

....The exhibition Challenge provides viewers wit the opportunity to consider and even debate these situations and the issues which arise. In this manner, the artworks question assumptions that are generally accepted as true without looking for counter-arguments. The LÁ Art Museum thus becomes an arena to help us raise questions, creating a space for discussing the tension within the world and exhibiting works that themselves are connected to our experiences. (Ásthildur Björg Jónsdóttir).

Guðrún Tryggvadóttir's piece at the exhibition (to the right on the photo) is called Clock of Centuries and is the first painting in series of paintings on time and the regeneration of generations. On the left side on the photo are works by Hildur Bjarnadóttir.