Margrét H. Blöndal

The space has changed,

it’s different from what it used to be

Bursting from confinement, inevitable.

Unsure if they’re dancing to the off beat or stepping in tune

Probably kissing out of frame

Longing for touch, the warmth of flesh.

skin

Lines of stroking

hair

fingertips

necklaces

steps

Bodies

we had almost forgotten

were really

living, pulsating.

Desires, simmering under the

skin. Just realizing

they might still

clench, kiss, scratch, lick.

Drawings

Exploding

off the paper

Deeply crisp piercing colours only ever possible

In finely powdered poisonous pigments.

Messy, forgiving moist oil.

Not blending together, existing together.

Neverdrying oil drenches the paper, everdry

pigments illuminating, radiating,

sounding from it.

—Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir

Margrét H. Blöndal (born in 1970) lives in Reykjavik, Iceland.

She studied at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and completed her studies at Rutgers University New Jersey, USA.

Solo exhibitions have been held at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas, and at the Municipal Museum of Reykjavik.

She has been included in numerous group exhibitions in such spaces as Kunsthalle Wien, National Gallery of Iceland, Turner Contemporary, Margate, and her work has been shown at Manifesta 7.

In 2021 Margrét H. Blöndal has been nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize. In 2022 the National Gallery of Iceland will present her work in a solo exhibition.