DRAW YOUR HORNS AND HUSBAND YOUR RESOURCES

Photographic pigment prints mounted on book plastic and cut out, accompanied by a text. Shown in Rotor 1. Gothenburg 2009.

Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttirs´ work is playing around with concepts of collective holdings. Things of value bound together, properties cultivated in groupings and the bonds that hold them together. The bonds and holdings themselves are often of an evasive form. The names they are given are not so unlike the names given to works of art and their references can be from the tactile to the very superficial. The names are fictional additions that add to the value of the arrangements the properties are placed in.
The photographs were taken in January 2009 in the middle of the economic collapse in Iceland. They are of stacks of expensive stone materials used in construction, the kinds that make for fancy tabletops and they are bound together by straps. They are now the unmovable property of a company based in the outskirts of Hafnarfjörður.