Smári Rúnar Róbertsson

Smári Rúnar Róbertsson

Born in Vestmannaeyjabær, Iceland, 1992

Graduated BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2015

Graduated MA from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam 2017

http://www.smarirunarrobertsson.com

I’m interested in how observations, thoughts and ideas can be arranged and reconfigured to tell stories and to form our understanding of ourselves, of time and of place. Things that are loaded with a built up tension, metaphorical or real, which can be tuned and played. In the works time and space are tangible materials which can be stretched, compressed and moulded into an incoherent rhythm of logic, repetition and lore. Through this I questions our reading of language and knowledge production. The work is continuous, cyclical and self-referential. Loops of contained within prophesies that endlessly repeat themselves. Within them nature and mythology play a large role and serve as the stage from which the perspective oscillates between the micro and macro. I look to find similes and corollaries between the physical and the imagined in order to reveal the fractal quality of systems that govern our surroundings, our stories and our thinking.