ARCHIVE - ENDANGERED WATERS An interactive installation, the work comprises 52 photographs of waterfalls which Rúrí has taken on the banks of both muddy glacial torrents and clear mountain streams. The pictures are developed on transparent film, mounted between two sheets of glass and arranged in sliding slots installed inside a huge steel frame structure, literally forming an archive of sorts. All the photographs are precisely and scientifically labelled and when a photograph is drawn out one can hear the sound of that specific waterfall. The installation is the representation of Iceland at the 50. Biennale di Venezia - 2003.
Dedication to Sigridur in Brattholt The artwork, is dedicated to Sigridur in Brattholt, who was born in Iceland in 1871, a farmers daughter. She has been referred to as being the first nature preserver of her home country, for dedicating her life to safeguard one of the countries most magnificent and famous waterfalls, Gullfoss. Technique: Photographs, Plexiglas, size 340 x 340 cm. Year 2002.
One man show in Ketilhus, Akureyri, Iceland, 2000. The exhibition is based on old photographs made by unknown photographers in the beginning of last century. The subject of all of them is waterfalls in Iceland. Each photographer presents the waterfalls in his own and personal way, and especially the photographs coloured by hand are a strong personal expression of how the individual experiences his subject. The old photographs are quite small, and some exist only as postcards. I have been collecting old photographs of Icelandic waterfalls for a long time, but they are hard to obtain nowadays. The numbers of different photographs that still exist however do show that the photographers of last century were deeply concerned with nature. Some of the waterfalls, illustrated in the artworks, have changed, or do not exist any more.
PASSAGE OF TIME One man show in Chinese European Art Center - CIAC, Xiamen, China, december 2002. Ground floor space; an installation of works based on photographic technique. on the left is Passage of Time, and on the right is That Day. Upper floor space; the installation Beijing Sunset, consisting of four large scale drawings.
