Fridfinnsson's work uses everyday materials and objects and changes them to create a new outcome. He uses time as an extra element in his work to evoke feeling and memory.
His ideas relate to some of the work i do in the sense that i work with
everyday objects and materials and then change their physicality. His
works like mine are free of background stories they are just in the
immediate present and have potential for the future.
Serpentine Gallery - Hreinn Fridfinnsson
'Hreinn Fridfinnsson is one of Iceland’s leading conceptual artists.
His work is celebrated for its lyricism and stark poetry that transcends
the often-commonplace subjects and materials that the artist uses to
create his pieces. Although there is a consistency of theme and a common
emotional thread to his art, the media that Fridfinnsson employs are
remarkably varied in scale and substance, from photography, drawings and
tracings to presentations and installations of sound, texts and
ready-mades.
Fridfinnnsson often presents found objects with which
he interferes as little as possible, creating new works that
investigate ideas of the self and of time. He has said that: ‘Notions of
time are always compelling. I read what comes my way about physics and
mathematics, but I read as one who is uninitiated. The feeling and the
interest in the essence of time is serious, but my dealing with time is
not knowledge-based; it is more exploratory and feeling-based.’'
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