The exhibition contains new work with a focus on meaning, light, ambiguity, perception and understanding. As in Jóna Hlíf’s previous exhibitions, the works form a whole, an installation of sorts in the space. This time around, she works partly with older pieces or connections   between them.  The exhibition RÓT came about as a kind of continuation from the works that Jóna Hlíf exhibited in Mjólkurbúðin, Akureyri, last summer. There, she worked with opposites, colours and glass. 
It was rather a binary exhibition, but also based on the idea that opposites do not actually exist. RÓT is a logical sequel, or a sister exhibition.  Jóna Hlíf (b. 1978) graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Akureyri in 2005, completed an MFA degree from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2007 and an MA degree in art education from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2012.  Jóna Hlíf has partaken in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and exhibition spaces in Iceland and abroad. Her work is represented in the collection of all the major museums in IcelandFor the past few years text and experiments with various material have been the base of her works. Text as texture, as expression of thoughts, as an inspiration for shaping society. 
In recent works she has been dealing with essence, time and image. Words and ideas are    deconstructed and given a new meaning in harmony with the material and context of the   exhibition.