Evening Tea at Nýló
A warm welcome to the first evening tea at Nýló of 2026! Come visit us on the long Thursday 29th of January from 7 - 9 pm and have a look at the newly opened exhibition Life Patterns – All these Years by Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir, enjoy some tea and refreshments and chat with us!
Looking forward to seeing you!
More about the exhibition:
Life Patterns – All These Years is a deeply personal exploration by Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir of the relationship between human beings and their environment. In her work, she examines the idea of “nature” as a line often drawn between ourselves and the world around us. A boundary that, upon closer inspection, reveals itself to be a construct. As this division becomes less clearly defined in contemporary life, Þórdís explores this shifting terrain through sensitivity, repetition, and curiosity.
Þórdís maintains a continuous artistic dialogue with her surroundings. She works with materials close at hand, drawn from her past and present, weaving together memory, matter, and ideas to form new connections. In this exhibition, she looks back at her own path, reflecting on her personal experience within the changing landscapes of human life and the environment in Iceland—from her rural childhood to the present moment.
Repetition is a central motif in Þórdís’s practice. Yarn is wrapped around and around, echoing the rhythmic patterns of life itself: daily routines, breath, the turning of the seasons, the movement of the Earth. Repetition appears both as concept and method—a reminder of the mechanisms that sustain the world and of the human need to make sense of the patterns that bind everything together.
Drawing on the familiarity of everyday objects and their material qualities, Þórdís breathes new life into the ordinary pieces of our lives, changing how we experience and interact with them. She playfully shifts and exposes the line we draw between ourselves and the “natural world,” while simultaneously contemplating how these ideas have evolved over time. Sheep, trees, and other materials intrinsic to Icelandic life become symbols of the life patterns that have sustained communities for centuries. Þórdís places the human figure firmly within the ecosystem rather than outside it. Physical materiality is essential to this process; by reanimating ordinary objects through highlighting their corporeal traits, she activates memories, emotions, and ideas within the viewer, opening a space where the personal, the human, and the natural converge.
Life Patterns – All These Years brings together past and present, memory and landscape, asking how the boundary between humanity and nature has shifted, softened, or dissolved altogether.
A warm welcome to the first evening tea at Nýló of 2026! Come visit us on the long Thursday 29th of January from 7 - 9 pm and have a look at the newly opened exhibition Life Patterns – All these Years by Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir, enjoy some tea and refreshments and chat with us!
Looking forward to seeing you!
More about the exhibition:
Life Patterns – All These Years is a deeply personal exploration by Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir of the relationship between human beings and their environment. In her work, she examines the idea of “nature” as a line often drawn between ourselves and the world around us. A boundary that, upon closer inspection, reveals itself to be a construct. As this division becomes less clearly defined in contemporary life, Þórdís explores this shifting terrain through sensitivity, repetition, and curiosity.
Þórdís maintains a continuous artistic dialogue with her surroundings. She works with materials close at hand, drawn from her past and present, weaving together memory, matter, and ideas to form new connections. In this exhibition, she looks back at her own path, reflecting on her personal experience within the changing landscapes of human life and the environment in Iceland—from her rural childhood to the present moment.
Repetition is a central motif in Þórdís’s practice. Yarn is wrapped around and around, echoing the rhythmic patterns of life itself: daily routines, breath, the turning of the seasons, the movement of the Earth. Repetition appears both as concept and method—a reminder of the mechanisms that sustain the world and of the human need to make sense of the patterns that bind everything together.
Drawing on the familiarity of everyday objects and their material qualities, Þórdís breathes new life into the ordinary pieces of our lives, changing how we experience and interact with them. She playfully shifts and exposes the line we draw between ourselves and the “natural world,” while simultaneously contemplating how these ideas have evolved over time. Sheep, trees, and other materials intrinsic to Icelandic life become symbols of the life patterns that have sustained communities for centuries. Þórdís places the human figure firmly within the ecosystem rather than outside it. Physical materiality is essential to this process; by reanimating ordinary objects through highlighting their corporeal traits, she activates memories, emotions, and ideas within the viewer, opening a space where the personal, the human, and the natural converge.
Life Patterns – All These Years brings together past and present, memory and landscape, asking how the boundary between humanity and nature has shifted, softened, or dissolved altogether.
