Svava Juliusson : Thetta er Esjublátt (This is Mount Esja blue)

At the core of Svava Thordis Juliusson’s recent work, is the activity of tying one cable tie to another, or conversely a plastic tie to a tree root, until the impression of a cloud or ghost-like mass emerges. As she works, further reward is in finding suggestions of real and imagined environments, as well as discovering references to her own body and personal history.  A connection to her country of birth figures strong in the work – titles often come to her in Icelandic, while the aesthetic considerations are drawn from the colour, shape and texture of the landscape of Iceland.