In this episode we critically unpack Tracing Fragments with curator Daría Sól Andrews and Brynja Sveinsdóttir, Director of Gerðarsafn. We discuss exhibition themes, Gerðarsafn’s unique position within the Icelandic art and museum community, and the inner workings of independent curating in public institutions.

Tracing Fragments includes works by Kathy Clark, Sasha Huber, Hugo Llanes, Frida Orupabo, Inuuteq Storch and Abdullah Qureshi. Through their works, these artists provide potential tools for emancipation and possibilities for healing by revisiting notions of identity ridden with complex legacies of dissociated, violent, and dispossessed experiences — themes and practices of unlearning, revising and reclaiming personal and shared histories that are relevant to our changing time. From Daría's curatorial text:

The artists of Tracing Fragments examine the

complicated histories behind colonial and

racial violence, repossessing terms like power

and victimhood. Realizing brown, indigenous,

and queer body on their own terms, each

artist imagines what forms this body and

history can take.

Tracing Fragments opened on the 4th of February at Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum and is on view until the 21st of May, 2023.

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