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The show home - at home we met up with different individuals who all share the common have had to flee their homes. Most have they had to leave their homeland because of war. Some have sought refuge in camps - others have fled the country out of the country cfa 2013 - but they all share in common to have finally come to Iceland and make a new home here.
The show home - at home we get a glimpse of the lives of refugees and asylum seekers who have come to Iceland in recent cfa 2013 years and decades. The photographs Katrina Elvar daughter they meet us. They show us who they are - but we can only make us imagine what they have to offer, what history they contain. Nevertheless, cfa 2013 they provide us access to their emotions. We perceive a fraction of their history and emotions through one unique item that has followed them from the old country and come home.
Part of the story is also conveyed with text derived from the interviews Sigrun Sigurdardottir with asylum seekers and refugees in Iceland. A recording that is part of the show we listen to individual refugees tell of their experiences. They strive to bring their experiences into words, find the place in the language. Most know how difficult it can be to communicate complex scenario and deep emotions with words alone. When the words we use are there outside the foreign language, the project can become almost hopeless. Therefore, it is more important that we leave well listened. We both look and listen.
Creates a photographer on the back of a successful and varied career as a photographer. She completed her BFA degree from the Art Institute of Boston in 1993 and has since held a number of solo exhibitions in Iceland, the U.S. and Denmark, most recently in August Gallery which shows her Equivocal opened last August. Catherine is one of the founding members of the Association of Icelandic contemporary photographers.
Sigrun Sigurdardottir is a cultural critic and has specialized in the study of photographs and their implications for people's experience and understanding of reality, past and present. Sigrun is currently working on photographic study of the museum as well as she teaches at the Academy.
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