Katrín Sigurđardóttir: Supra Terram, Parasol unit

Ziba Ardalan’s, non-for-profit gallery delights with yet another thought-provoking exhibition, this time by a New York-based Icelandic artist.
Katrín Sigurđardóttir’s sculptures explore the relationship between real and imaginary places; her magical installations and architectural creations play with space and time, scale and medium. In the last few years her constructions have been steadily gaining prominence. Only recently she created a site-specific installation at New York’s Met Museum, which involved a meticulous rendering of two of the museum's 18^th century rooms in a reduced scale and ghostly white hue. She also represented Iceland at the 2013 Venice Biennale with her much-vaunted piece, Foundation, where she covered a disused space with ornamental tiles.
For the Parasol unit Wharf Road show, Sigurđardóttir has created a mythic grotto-like installation that extends through the ceiling of the ground level to the floor above. Supra Terram explores the dichotomies of perception between the large-scale grotto downstairs and the bird’s eye view upstairs. Immersive yet disorientating, Sigurđardóttir forces us to question our relationship with the space around us.
Thought-provoking and immensely playful, Katrín Sigurđardóttir lights up Parasol unit this summer.