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Welcome to the art exhibition, The Factory, Reaching for the Other, in the old herring factory in Djúpavík, Westfjords of Iceland. The exhibition is open from 23 May until 11 September, 2026. The opening is on 23 May from 5-10 pm. Daily opening hours are between 10:30 am and 6 pm.
The tenth iteration of The Factory, Reaching for the Other, focuses on connection – the process of attempting to close a gap – where site-specificity is a means of both grasping and abstracting place. What emerges when a location is not merely an arbitrary shell around the art, but is a creator and collaborator, equal to the artist?
The artists were asked to situate their own worlds and art into the realm of Djúpavík – and Iceland, more broadly – exploring connections and continuities across people, places, materiality, and time. And in this process of reaching for connection and continuities, the inverse is always already present: disconnection, discontinuity, alienation.
Site and art mutually inform, influence, and even care for each other, shifting between harmony and disharmony, but as equal creators, whether the site is consciously acknowledged or not.
Reaching across the space between the present and the past, the artists’ works sync and clash with the factory’s old concrete and the ever-present nature around it, inscribing and embodying new truths about Djúpavík.
Djúpavík transforms into a chimera, a hybrid of continuous contradictions.
The Factory is part of the Reykjavík Arts Festival, which takes place from 30 May until 14 June.
Artists: Abigail Portner (US), April Dobbins (US/IS), Darja Shatalova (RU/AU), Gabriel Dawe (US/MEX), Hildur Henrýsdóttir (IS), Olivia Lloyd-Sherlock Arribas (UK/ESP), Patty Spyrakos (US/IS), Shana de Villiers (NL/ZA), Sonja Strange (DK), Sóley Ragnarsdóttir (DK/IS), Viðar Logi (IS/US)
Curator: Emilie Dalum
Hosted by: Hótel Djúpavík
Partners and supporters: The Westfjords Development Fund, the Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, the Westfjord Power Company, the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Hótel Djúpavík, and the School of Photography in Reykjavík.
Follow the exhibition here: @djupavikart