Aside from blue lagoons and the Northern Lights, a trip to Iceland this summer affords the opportunity to visit a unique, years-in-the-making exhibition from three members of the SVA community. Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Theresa Himmer (MFA 2011 Fine Arts) and BFA Visual & Critical Studies faculty member Emily Weiner (MFA 2011 Fine Arts) met while in the MFA Fine Arts program; their show in Kópavogur, Iceland’s second largest municipality and just south of Reykjavik, brings them together once again, initiating a new phase of their ongoing conversation about their individual practices and joint interests in communication across history, place and media.

“The In, With and Between Us” opened in early June at Gerðarsafn, a modern and contemporary art museum founded around the work and legacy of Gerður Helgadóttir (1928 – 1975), Iceland’s most well-known female mid-century sculptor. Helgadóttir’s voice has been added to the friends’ discussion in the form of archival access and pieces from the museum's collection, joining new work in sculpture, film and painting from Gestsdóttir, Himmer and Weiner. It is on view through August 20.

Weiner’s paintings are described by the show’s curator as interested in “how symbols move between the collective unconscious and individual perception.” I spoke with her about the origins of such an international experience and what it means to work in direct conjunction with others, close contemporaries and otherwise.

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