The exhibition presents works by Finnish artists Karoliina Hellberg and Josefina Nelimarkka

responding to the local atmosphere of Ísafjörður and the space of Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert

Art Space. The exhibition is part of the festival Við Djúpið and the works are the result of a

dialogue that started during their first joint visit to Ísafjörður last year to attend the music

festival.

The multisensory installation delves into layered histories, simultaneous realities, and

imagined futures that co-exist within the gallery space and the surrounding landscape of

Ísafjarðarbær, blending the ghostly past with speculative dimensions. Paintings, drawings,

and glass sculptures explore temporal and environmental shifts, inviting viewers to

reconsider time, space, and the unseen.

In her new paintings, Karoliina Hellberg explores the past lives of the gallery building and

different dimensions where the ghosts that are engraved in the space’s memory may occur.

Her practice is deeply rooted in painting and drawing, which can also take – in addition to

paintings on paper and canvas – three dimensional or textual forms. The gaze directed

towards the past is also looking towards the possible futures.

Josefina Nelimarkka creates a site-specific and multisensory installation made of hand-blown

glass. She is interested in the sudden and sensitive environmental changes of the landscape

of Ísafjörður and the arctic dimension of the global hydrological cycle. The aerial and subtle

glass works in their poesis, and materiality speak about the present moment and the

inseparability of weather and experience.

The exhibition investigates the co-existence of different yet simultaneous phenomena and

scenarios that are given a visual shape and colour. The artists invite the audience to broaden

the perception of time and space in order to transport the viewers to the unseen and

uncharted parallel worlds.