Saturday April 5th at 3 p.m., we invite you to the opening of Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir’s exhibition Universality. Through a fusion of text and imagery, Jóna Hlíf explores the creative power of language – its capacity to connect, express and transcend cultural boundaries. The exhibition invites reflection on what it means to be human and how language shapes our understanding of the world, of our reality and of ourselves.

Visuals and written language merge and the boundaries between the local and the universal blur, as the artist engages with the fragility of meaning and our constant drive to communicate. The exhibition challenges viewers to consider how language mirrors the universe itself and our ongoing struggle to grasp the universal, confronting ourselves. Underlying it all is a focus on the concept of “human experience” and its inextricable connection to the broader phenomenon of life itself.

Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir (b. 1978) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Akureyri in 2005, completed an MFA degree from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2007, as well as an MA in art education from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2013. In recent years, Jóna Hlíf’s artistic practice has focused on exploring the concepts of time, being and the image, with special regard to illumination, space and representation. Jóna Hlíf has held various solo exhibitions in art spaces both in Iceland and abroad, including BERG Contemporary and the Akureyri Art Museum. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and her works belong to the collections of a number of museums in Iceland.

Free entry – see you at Hafnarborg.