Retrospective / Expedition
In the year 2017 The Reykjavik Art Museum started series of retrospective exhibitions. The museum's aim is to research and present the works of significant local artists, followed by an extensive catalogue and program. The first exhibition and publication titled Expedition, focused on the works of Anna Líndal who has a career as an artist of almost three decades. In her practice, Líndal has dealt with some of the pressing questions of our time, working across mediums and fields. In her art, Anna Líndal has focused on questions of normalization in daily life, gender roles, identity and image construction; visible and invisible power structures that dominate society. In later years Líndal has dealt with man's desire to understand nature, in works which she largely bases on her own experience of dwelling outside in nature and participating in scientific expeditions. She assists scientists in research expeditions and simultaneously collects material and develops ideas where science and artistic creation merge. At the center of the exhibition a new artwork, titled Expedition, traces together the last three decades of her work. It connects Líndal's early interest in the female role and gender based work methods to her later interest in the measuring of nature, staying in nature, and the relationship between science and art. Different ideas and processing meet in a whole which reflects Líndal's impact as an artist and critic who analyses the pressing questions of our time based on her own existence.
