halla birgisdóttir - myndskáld//pictorial storyteller
highs / lows
2018 - Pencil drawings on paper, large pencil drawings and texts on the wall.
About the work: highs / lows are part of the joint exhibition Allra veðra von, where the art group IYFAC created their work based on ideas about weather. In her work, Halla investigates the correlations between emotions and weather. How we talk about the weather, what words we use and how we use the same terms to understand things that are invisible and difficult to understand.
"Thoughts pile up. They're like thunderclouds, everything somehow makes them angry. Depression is visually described as a constant cloud of rain chasing one particular person. What associations does the weather form with emotions? Storm surges, fog, hail, clear, cloudy with showers, sleet, calm, breeze. "
- halla birgisdóttir, pictorial storyteller
This bloody rain is endless
She is flatulent
Thaw
Everything represents something
This one somehow always manages to kill the mood
Sometimes the weather outside fits so well with the weather within
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Sunshine everywhere
In the sun she wants to buy everything
Sleet in the heart
Commotion
She is in great denial
She tries to capture the meaning
He is sick and tired of everything
She is drizzling
She builds a barrier
The shadows have no effect
She is a celestial moon
The weather is acting weird
She thinks she can sing
Postpartum depression
Black as bile
She was sheltered from outside stimuli
Downfall
Thick fog
Rainbow
Everything seems perfect
Clearer than clear
He provides shelter
Ambivailance
She holds her breath
The chaos, outside and inside
Notice me, mamma
Very deep depression
Thickness
She is above the sky
Ideas overflow
Unfaltering and leaning into the wind
She uses an upturned umbrella for a parasol
They encourage each other's manias
Everything is crystal clear
They always come back
Depression
She talks to the cat about the weather
Higher and higher
She is intolerable and pretencious
Shady
Small but deep abyss
Dead calm
She welcomes the gloom
She thinks about it a lot
She is the savior of the sun
Doldrum in the relationship
He keeps everything locked inside
Individual rays sometimes break out through the clouds
Cakes baked in the middle of the night
Applecheeks
In love
It can't always be predicted
She creates a shadow
She bathes in the moonlight
Exhausted
You're like a thundercloud, just like your mother
The cat gives him temporary comfort
He keeps her afloat
A very thick fog
Sky-blue
Completely depressed calm
She will soon be in the deep
Waves
Regret after the storm
A woman tries to untangle her complications
She is constantly building cities in the sky
Unreliable
The atmosphere is electric
They acknowledge the light
Pitch-black
Seismic activity
The future is bright
In roaring defense
She tries to draw herself better
Shadowed intimacy
Natural disasters
Scantily dressed, even though it's cold
Disappointment with the forecast
Cold and isolation
I can hardly go on
She writes the letter
A glimpse of light
The weather could be less angry
It is not always visible
She could use a little storm right about now
The frost is near
Cloud banks
She is not dressed according to weather