ELIN JAKOBSDOTTIR
Born 1968 in Selfoss, Iceland
Lives and Works in Glasgow, Scotland
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Jakobsdottir seeks out a kind of hieratic order hidden beneath the surface of the everyday, conjuring shapes and forms that echo the poetic mystery at the heart of Being. Like a musician improvising on different instruments she moves back and forth between media as well as between the outer and the inner world of perception, testing how traces in one’s memory connect or re-connect with a present, physical experience. Her attitude to time is rhythmic, the ultimate non-time within paintings expands into a buckled loop of incremental pictorial changes within her films. In her drawings this looped tableau acquires a new trajectory that reabsorbs the archetypal characters of her films, the meticulous paper cutouts and the free hand spontaneous mark making of her earliest artistic endeavours into a palimpsest of forms where the macrocosm of the inner and outer worlds are held in poetic arrangements.
by Anne Kirsten Hege, 2013
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND FILM COMMISSIONS
2014
upcoming solo exhibition: Eyes Cast; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Centenary Street; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (film commission)
2011
Worktable 1 Worktable 2; Fiction House, Berlin
2009
Hinges Between Days / Cologne Contemporaries; Temporary Gallery Cologne
Hinges Between Days; Stills Gallery Edinburgh (catalogue)
Worktable 2; Stills Edinburgh (film commission)
Horsebox; Stills Edinburgh (film commission)
2005
Revisions in Relative Time; Glasgow International, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2004
Models; The Louvre Museum, Paris (film commission)
2001
Human Fabric; Gallery Jota Castro Projects, Brussels
1999
Recent Work; La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1998
Traces; Kulturhusset, Bergen, Norway
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
2014 Frames : Projecting International Photography, Glasgow International
Folding Unfolding Space, Cubus-M Galerie, Berlin
Fiction Dacha (Folly) with Roger Bundschuh and Mark Sadler, Collaborations - Art Cologne (Krome Gallery)
2013
Bursting at the Seams Boiling Point of Dreams, Krome Gallery Berlin
Drawing Biennale 2013 The Drawing Room, London (catalogue)
2012
Drifting; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (curated by Valerie Smith, catalogue)
Ecstatic Symbolic, Fiction House, Berlin
2008
Afterthought; IrmaVepLab, Reims (curated by Anja Isabel Schneider)
Projections-Making Work for Galleries Work for Cinema, Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh International Film Festival
2007
Placemakers; Curators Without Borders Gallery, Berlin (curated by Christine Nippe, catalogue)
2006
Veranstaltungen; Fiction House, Berlin
2005
Revisions in Relative Time; Glasgow International, Market Gallery, Glasgow (catalogue)
2004
A Coté Rêve un Sphynx Accroupi; The Louvre Museum, Paris (curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac, catalogue)
2003
Glasgow School of Art MFA Show; Tramway, Glasgow
2001
Des Territoires; l’Ecôle des Beaux Arts, Paris (curated by Jean-Francois Chevrier, catalogue)
1999
Recent Work; La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1997
Between Two Spaces; shop space, Charing Cross, Glasgow
1996
New Scottish Art; The Demarco Foundation, Edinburgh
GRANTS
2013
Artists Bursaries Award, Creative Scotland
Creative Futures in Germany Award, The British Council
2012
Exhibiting Abroad Grant, The British Council
2009
Hope Scott Trust Award, Hope Scott Trust
2004
Exhibiting Abroad Grant, The British Council
2003
Professional Development Grant, Scottish Arts Council
2001
Exhibiting Abroad Grant, The British Council
2000
Sleipnir Travel Grant, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
1999
Small Assistance Grant, Scottish Arts Council
1998
Nordic Guest Artist Residency Grant, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
Janus
2013
Super-8 transferred to DVD
12min
silent
Ecstatic Symbolic Series
2013
gouache, ink, pencil on paper
35 x 41 cm
Ecstatic Symbolic Series
2013
gouache, ink, pencil on paper
22 x 35 cm
Black Paper Cut-Out No.1
2008/2009
paper, gouache
160 x 150 cm
Horsebox
2009
16mm transferred to DVD
11min
silent
Wooden Horsebox
2007
birch plywood, beechwood
150 x 60 x 170 cm