Gangur lífsins.

The Walk of Life.

Reykjavik, 1992

This was probably my first installation combining visual art & music (and text).

It was the year before I entered art school in Iceland. I was 19 years old and already imagining artworks that would function like sculptures transmitting sound.

I covered a staircase with plastic sheeting, painted sentences about life, emotions, and the search for meaning onto it in black, and added a series of (self)portraits.

I had also transformed an old guitar from my grandmother’s house into a face inspired by Edvard Munch’s The Scream. It hung upside down above the middle landing of the staircase. Below it were my shoes and a cassette tape playing music I had recorded at home on my electric guitar with some found sounds from the radio.

I believe the work was part of an exhibition called “The Exhibition of the Young People” (Sýning Unga Fólksins”, organised by the youth centre Hitt Húsið in Reykjavík.