ABOUT

IRIS THORSTEINSDOTTIR
Born: Reykjavik, Iceland

Iris Thorsteinsdottir is an Icelandic Artist living and working in London. She just currently migrated from California to London, after 10 years where she finished her masters in Photography under Lon Clark at the AAU in San Francisco. She started her Reflection series at the Marin Headlands in California 2004. Her work has been exhibited at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery in San Francisco and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Each image was shot in either a window, or a sheet of glass that was carried in one arm, with the camera held in the other. The objective is to provide,simultaneously, both a sense of shelter provided by the architectural interiors,and exposure to the adjacent exterior environment. This creates an image that gives the viewers a new perception of that place based on the association of mutually exclusive visual perspectives and means to reflect on their own knowledge and perceptions of how we see. Here, the essence of both inside and outside, shelter and exposure, man-made and natural, co-exist. By
synthesizing two distinct and unique elements, recognized by the viewer as something that should be separate, the merging of the forms is of essence to the whole composition in an effort to create the desired effect of raising the question about place and reality.