Flagð / Jezebel

About the exhibition:

Jezebel is an intimate dance between corrosive elements of femininity, a candid exploration of nuanced social relationships, layered with thinly veiled power struggles and the longing for connection. Long strands of human hair find their way into the exhibit‘s narrative arc, juxtaposed with torn lace they tell the story of female aggression, envy and subjugation. Themes of hair-pulling emerge throughout the show and disembodied locks of hair appear pasted onto canvas. Sunneva whips each canvas with hair, creating dimension through the symbolic medium. In the titular piece, The dogs shall eat Jezebel the subject has been torn apart, a canvas spanning time and space, a lifetime of collected experiences. In Masked she is poised and put back together, her shredded layers twined together as she carries on.

Rust and time are closely knit with the pain of inevitable decline or the end of a friendship, the rusted metal structures are as armour that forms like a hard shell to protect from future hurt. Sunneva invites viewers to examine their scars of social exclusion and the intricate tapestry of female social relationships, challenging one-dimensional stereotypes of femininity.

by Hlédís Maren Guðmundsdóttir, Sociologist and cultural critic