The curator of Sequences XII is Daría Sól Andrews

In October 2025, the Sequences art festival will take place for the twelfth time. The curator of the festival is Daría Sól Andrews.

Daría Sól Andrews is an independent curator based between Reykjavík and the United States. In 2021 Daría attended the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Curatorial Fellow in New York. She holds an MA in Curating, Art Management and Law from the University of Stockholm and a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. In 2017 Daria founded her home gallery Studio Sol, in a renovated warehouse in Reykjavík. In 2024 her exhibition, Tracing Fragments, was named Group Exhibition of the Year for the Icelandic Art Prize.

“My curatorial concept for Sequences XII centers around a growing aesthetic field, as Arden Reed has termed it, called “slow art” – which encompasses intimate encounters between art and viewer, examining alternative approaches to art making and experiencing. Through an aesthetic perception of slowness, the festival will connect locally, and focus on practices involving investigation, research, and interconnectivity. Programming will emphasize community building and reflective discussion and mediation. I will emphasize artists who use their practice to invest in a time and place through research and pedagogy.  We will explore what it means to both experience and produce with slowness at the heart, through works that force us to pause, to meditate and reflect. Exhibitions will focus on artists that approach their work through a slowness of research practice, as well as works that are produced slowly through a meditative patience and sensory focus.

An appreciation for slowness reframes the concept of productivity. As a mindful practice, it offers an escape from oversaturated content and an unhealthy bias towards speed and consumption in our modern society. Through the ethos of less is more, artists allow for ethical and sustainable production, creating work carefully and with consideration, and towards a deeper observation and slow appreciation. Slowing down then offers a political dimension, an act of rebellion, resistance, and patience. I will approach slowness not strictly through an element of time, but rather through deep connection, immersive attention, reciprocal relationships, engagement, and participatory involvement.”