ANDRI BJÖRGVINSSON



  Works
   
   Waiting Room
   Shipwreck
   Monophthongs
   St. Emi
   The Chosen Ones
   Die Rennbahn
   Above and Below
   Gaps

 
  About

Shipwreck
2024



“Shipwreck is a durational and processual piece where UKAI Projects, alongside Icelandic
artists, technicians, and audiences, will create and animate immersive scenarios where
audiences might encounter fragments of a changed world. In a Bakhtinian mode, visitors
encounter regions of uncertain meaning and governance. Before making determinations
about the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of what unfolds, they must consummate and make
whole. And by giving a shape to these shards of ecological and technological excess, they
become answerable to what happens next.”

- Project description from UKAI projects 


For this exhibition in Korpúlfstaðir, Reykjavík, I was interested in using found materials and after searching the nearby area I found a pile of old neon signs, waiting to be thrown away. These signs were the core material of two scupltures I exhibited. One sign I cut in pieces and re-assabled as a sculpture, and for the other one I kept the original form of the sign and used the remaining working lights. 
Continuing with the theme of lights and lamps, I created a chandelier out of old plastic boxes used for shipping vegetables that was hung in the middle of the space.



Brasserie,   2024
















REST AUR ANT,   2024













Chandelier, 2024