Erna Skúladóttir "...riddled with defects and tiny fractures"
By using drawing and manipulating a place and a space as a raw material in itself, the work will explore the balance between creation and destruction.
The process of ruination is a gradual one and marks that have come to being with time and use of the buildings, sites or objects highlight the tear and wear of a space, surroundings or objects. They link together the time period from before to what will happen later by revealing old tensions and by that re-connecting the marks of time with a narrative which is embedded within the architecture itself.
"... everything is the ruin of what came before. A table is the ruin of a tree..."
(Solnit, R. Landscapes for Politics, University of California Press, 2008)
Erna Elínbjörg Skúladóttir is on her last semester of her MA studies in Art at Bergen School of Art and Design. She works with the Ruin as a concept and material.