Exhibition opening on Friday 4 October 2024 at 17:00 - 19:00 at SÍM Gallery, Hafnarstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík.

Hjörtur Matthías Skúlason's creates human beings and life in the form of sculptures that represent care and love. We are one entity, and at the same time alone in a crowd. There is hidden strength and beauty in quality craftsmanship, hand stitching and texture. Empathy, loneliness and at the same time warmth surround the works, who according to Hjörtur are love poems to humanity.

The dominant asexuality in the sculptures, dolls longing with their searching hands like you, and me, longing for togetherness, wholeness. That the world will one day be whole. At the same time, the works are grounded, full of childish origins and creative history.

Hjörtur Matthías Skúlason was born in Patreksfjörður in 1979 and grew up in Rauðasandur in Vesturbyggð. He completed his preliminary studies at the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts before starting his studies at the Iceland University of the Arts, in 2013 with a Bachelor's degree in product design. Hjörtur's specialty in recent years has been his human-like sculptures, hand-stitched dolls that remind us of our fate and connection with nature, beauty as well as horror. In two-dimensional artworks, the doll's body becomes a static tension, a power that lives beneath a sensual landscape.

The exhibition runs until October 27th 2024.