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If this is the year of camp, then Icelandic artist <\/span>Hrafnhildur \u201cShoplifter\u201d Arnard\u00f3ttir<\/span><\/a> is its perfect representative at the<\/span> 58th Venice Biennale,<\/span><\/a> opening this week. The art world\u2019s favourite hair-enthusiast has converted the Nordic island\u2019s pavilion into one exuberant, colourful, fluffy immersive installation \u2014 very much at the image of its creator. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI immediately knew that I wanted to cover the pavilion entirely with hair,\u201d Shoplifter told me when I visited the space during the instalment. In a warehouse on the island of Giudecca, a shipping container worth of synthetic hair is being combed, braided and prepped by a herd of dedicated assistants and family members, all donning variations of the same tie-dye outfit. \u201cI just wanted it to be over-the-top,\u201d the artist continues. Titled <\/span>Chromo Sapiens<\/span><\/i>, the installation is a like a cavernous journey of colour combinations which bring visitors through \u201cthis other wordly, alien landscape,\u201d she says. It is divided into different three different sections \u2014 progressing from darker tones to euphoric colours and soft pastels \u2014 all named more fabulously than the other (my favourite is \u2018Opium Natura\u2019). It comes complete with a soundscape composed by Icelandic cult metal band HAM (\u2018animal fur\u2019 in Icelandic), emanating from the work through a 24-channel surround system.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":76515,"id":76515,"title":"Icelandic Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__ 100 copy","filename":"Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","filesize":1817740,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/shoplifter\/icelandic-pavilion_2019_elisabet_davidsdottir_ha_cs__-100-copy\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"icelandic-pavilion_2019_elisabet_davidsdottir_ha_cs__-100-copy","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76511,"date":"2019-05-08 16:00:40","modified":"2019-05-08 16:00:40","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-100-copy.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Photo: Elisabet_Davidsdottir"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Originally from Reykjavik, Shoplifter (a nickname she adopted when she realised New Yorkers couldn\u2019t pronounce her birth name, after she relocated in the early 1990s) made a name for herself with her primal-yet-sophisticated hair-based installations, often bridging the worlds of art and fashion while collaborating with everyone from Bj\u00f6rk to Moncler. Human hair, synthetic hair, fiber hair; you name it, she\u2019ll have it. \u201cI\u2019m trying to collaborate with this material and make it work with me on becoming something else,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m imitating nature but on some kind of hyper coloured way.\u201d Like a hymn to <\/span>Susan Sontag\u2019s observations on camp<\/span><\/a>, exaggeration is key. \u201cIt\u2019s cartoonish, it\u2019s childish, it\u2019s playful, it\u2019s mossy, it\u2019s beautiful, it\u2019s grotesque; it\u2019s all kinds of things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s fascination with hair started at a young age, when she found her grandmother\u2019s cut-off braid, stored in a drawer, like the remnant of her lost youth. \u201cIt was morbid and eerie but beautiful,\u201d remembers the artist. Little did she know then that the fiber would once become her artistic signature. And while early experimentations focused on human hair of a dark complexion, in recent years, the most synthetic and colourful, the better. \u201cI wanted to bring colour into my work, because I consider colour such a big part of who I am,\u201d explains the artist, who has developed a side practice as a neuroscience nerd, studying anything that relates to our perception of colour. \u201cI started working with these kind of Halloween-like, low-quality hair, and it kind of resembled wool,\u201d she says of the mass produced material. \u201cI\u2019m fascinated with this pop culture element and I consider my work more like textile pop art.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":76507,"id":76507,"title":"23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni","filename":"23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","filesize":699367,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/23_iceland_pav_2019__ugo_carmeni\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"23_iceland_pav_2019__ugo_carmeni","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":0,"date":"2019-05-08 14:42:32","modified":"2019-05-08 14:42:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/23_iceland_pav_2019_\u00a9_ugo_carmeni.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Photo: Ugo Carmeni"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Indeed, wool plays a central role in the history of Iceland. When Norse settlers first arrived to the nordic island circa 870 AD, they brought with them domestic sheep, providing Icelanders not only with food but also wool to endure harsh climate conditions. Still to this day, the island of 350,000 is famously home to twice as many sheep than humans, continuing to fuel the country\u2019s rich tradition of craft. \u201cIn Scandinavia, the textile heritage up until now has been considered this kind of lower art, something inferior to patriarch painting trends and sculptures,\u201d the artist says, also pointing to the reclaiming of crafts in 1970s feminist art movements, led by the L.A. Woman\u2019s Building. \u201cMy work is like macho textiles, because when I\u2019m making my wall murals, I have a pneumatic staple gun and heavy metal music in my ears and I\u2019m attacking the wall with these colourful, cutesy fibres; but it\u2019s like really physical, it\u2019s like boxing almost,\u201d she laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to her participation this year\u2019s Venice Biennale, Shoplifter currently has a solo exhibition at <\/span>Kiasma<\/span><\/a> in Helsinki, part of the Finnish National Gallery, and recently completed a collaboration with Italian apparel brand Moncler for their <\/span>Genius project<\/span><\/a>, presented at the latest Milan Fashion Week. \u201cI like allowing myself to bring my work into different contexts,\u201d she says of her involvement in the fashion industry, which also includes a collection in collaboration with <\/span>& Other Stories<\/span><\/a>. \u201cAlso, I just want to communicate to more people from different disciplines, and I feel like my work is escaping the holiness of the museum and the gallery in order to be a part of everyday life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":76516,"id":76516,"title":"Icelandic Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__ 783 copy","filename":"Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","filesize":2275175,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/shoplifter\/icelandic-pavilion_2019_elisabet_davidsdottir_ha_cs__-783-copy\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Photo:Elisabet_Davidsdottir","name":"icelandic-pavilion_2019_elisabet_davidsdottir_ha_cs__-783-copy","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76511,"date":"2019-05-08 16:06:07","modified":"2019-05-08 16:06:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Icelandic-Pavilion_2019_\u00a9Elisabet_Davidsdottir_HA_CS__-783-copy.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

During our interview, we are interrupted by a phone call from the artist\u2019s hair provider in New York. Shoplifter claims to be her biggest customer; unsurprisingly. \u201cWhen I show up she throws out everyone and closes the shop,\u201d the artist jokes. Now, from China to sinking Venice via New York, is moving masses of industrially-produced synthetic fibre across oceans a reasonable practice in our current environmental crisis? \u201cI recycle, I barely throw out a hairball,\u201d affirms Shoplifter. \u201cIt can be taken apart and reassembled in a totally different way,\u201d she says of her site-specific installations (the Venice project is due to travel to the Reykjavik Museum sometime in the new year). <\/span><\/p>\n

Are visitors allowed to touch the art? \u201cPeople are welcome to pat it like an old shy Mammoth,\u201d the artist jokes. Of course, she wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. \u201cMy work is always inspired by humans,\u201d she continues. \u201cHuman behaviour, who we are, the philosophy of human existence. 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