Reykjavík Museum of Photography

In a curious manner, Auður Ómarsdóttir shoots her photographs with an
instinctive interest in human behaviour. She describes her works as intimate
and objective observations of situations. By constantly searching and
discovering, she considers the world to be filled with indications of
happenings that took place or have not taken place yet. The indications
operate as incoherent fragments belonging to an invisible composition, like a
still from a film or a sentence from a script.



In the exhibition "Situations", the artist connects her autobiographical work
with photographs she collects from found films. The films are found exposed
and undeveloped inside used cameras that have been forgotten, lost or given
away by their former owners. By merging the images from the found films
with her own, the narrative expands and thereby functions as an interface
between the intimate and the objective. The images are untitled and form an
anonymous composition that is interconnected and reveals human lives as a
continuous set of unexplainable situations.

In Auður’s sense, the photographs reflect the lives of others just as much as
her own life – which she often experiences as someone else’s.

Auður Ómarsdóttir │Situations

The exhibition "Situations" by Auður Ómarsdóttir is on display in exhibition space Skotið.

Auður Ómars­dóttir │S­itu­ations

The exhibition "Situations" by Auður Ómarsdóttir is on display in exhibition space Skotið.

Auður Ómarsdóttir │Situations