All are welcome to attend artist talks with Adele Hyry and JH Engström Sunday 26th January at 3 p.m. in Gerðarsafn. Adele and JH Engström both have works in the exhibition Stare in Gerðarsafn, which is a part of Icelandic Photo Festival 2025. The talks will be in English.
Adele Hyry FI (b. 1994) is a visual artist and photographer living in Helsinki. Their lens-based works play with the intimate aspects of one’s lifetime, striving to reach elsewhere from realistic starting points. Hyry likes to experiment with printing in the color darkroom and rethink found forms toward sculpturality. In their practice, Hyry wishes to sidestep predefined frames and seek representations beyond prevailing norms. Themes of love, community, and care recur in Hyry’s layered works which grow from day-to-day observations into installations and publications. Hyry graduated from the BA photo department at Lahti Institute of Design in Finland. They have also studied fine art photography at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden.
JH Engström (b. 1969) is a Swedish photographer and video artist that lives and works between Paris and Värmland. Engström’s practice is based on the bypass of all rules and advocates great freedom of style. Feeling at ease with the instantaneous as much as with the staged frame, a virtuoso of the black and white and of color, he masters the accident and toys with techniques to question photography itself. Engström has an intuitive approach that conceals a very personal reading of the world in which the autobiographical exploration is central. Each portrait or self-portrait, still life or landscape, holds a sum of recollections and constitutes an intimate, visual and poetic journal that addresses each and every one. JH Engström is internationally recognized for his works, he has held solo exhibitions widely and authored many publications, including Shelter (1997), Trying to Dance (2003), Haunts (2005), Tout vas bien (2015) and The Frame (2022).
More information about the exhibition:
https://gerdarsafn.kopavogur.is/en/event/stare/
Images: Adele Hyry, JH Engström.
