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Dodda Maggý

BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík

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Title
I’m not here
Gallery
BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
Year
2009
Duration
2 min 22 s

The silent video is projected on a white wall, in a day-lit room, the white pallet of the video fading into its surroundings. Instead of working with darkness, the artist seeks to make its character fade into actual space. The formal setting of the video itself follows the same principle, becoming one with its surroundings. Wanting to create a work that represents the space it is created in while recording a performance, the work consists of a triangle; a performer, the camera, and the viewer, all together interwoven with the notions of daydreaming and reverie.

As told by the artist herself: “Performing in front of the camera is a way of encountering myself; the camera’s eye reflects my own gaze as if I’m looking in a mirror, while the character I portray reflects this gaze onto the viewer. I play with the viewer’s gaze, deliberately placing the viewer in specific viewpoints with the framing of the image and styles of editing.” As both a visual artist, as well as a musical composer, Dodda Maggý is inspired by film theory and time-based media itself, playing on the language of moving imagery through popular media.

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Dodda Maggý

Artist
www.doddamaggy.net

1981, Reykjavik

Dodda Maggý

Dodda Maggý (b. 1981) is an Icelandic artist and composer based in Reykjavík. Her practice centers around research of time-based media ranging from formal studies of the structural relationship between the visual and the aural to exploring the ethereal qualities of video, sound, and music.

Dodda Maggý holds two BA degrees from The Iceland Academy of the Arts, in Fine Arts and in Musical Composition, and an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She was also a participant in the Nordic Sound Art program, a two year MFA level study program in Sound Art at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Malmö Art Academy, Oslo National College of the Arts and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Solo exhibitions include The ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, The National Gallery of Iceland and The Reykjavík Art Museum.