AUÐUR LÓA
Gallery Port, 2017
Ekkisens Artspace, 2017
Gallery Port, 2017
Gallery Port, 2017
Díana, að eilífu / Diana Forever
Bað Díönu pt I / Diana Bathing pt I
Bað Díönu pt II / Diana Bathing pt II
Diana Forever
size varies
papier maché / mixed media
Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir
2017
Works made for the exhibition Diana Forever, commemorating the death of Princess Diana in 1997, twenty years earlier. The work explores how myths come to be, and the relationship between the Roman goddess Diana, Diana Princess of Whales, and the narrators of their stories.
Photography: Starkaður Sigurðarson
Andrea Arnarsdóttir
Díana að eilífu / Diana Forever
Diana Forever was an art exhibition held in November of 2017, in various galleries in Reykjavík, including Ekkisens, Portið and Mengi. Fourteen artists contributed original works on the exhibition’s subject: Princess Diana.
In August of 2017, twenty years had passed since Princess Diana lost her life. Her name never quite disappeared from our daily life, from the newspapers, and during this strange anniversary year we found her everywhere. Statues of her were erected, charities made donations in her name, people layed flowers out on the pavement once again. It seems this phenomenon is not confined within the person that she was, but the goddess that was created once the outside world enveloped her.
She lives on as a memory, a myth, an idea.
The photographs displayed were taken during the exhibition and performance night, and portray works by the contributing artists.
Photography: Starkaður Sigurðarson, Laufey Elíasdóttir and Árni Már Erlingsson
Contributing artists:
Andrea Arnarsdóttir
Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir
Berglind Erna Tryggvadóttir
Guðrún Heiður Ísaksdóttir
Helga Skúladóttir Thoroddsen
Magnús Gestsson
María Worms
Rúnar Örn Marinósson
Sigrún Hlín Sigurðardóttir
Snorri Ásmundsson
Starkaður Sigurðarson
Steingrímur Eyfjörð
Sveinn Steinar Benediktsson
Una Sigtryggsdóttir
Curators:
Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir, Andrea Arnarsdóttir and Starkaður Sigurðarson