The Battle between good and evil. Slunkaríki Ísafjörður, Iceland
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Unnar Örn Auðarson
Installation: We built a smoking re in the space, and installed a dead clay cat and a battered chair. The main elements of the rst exhibition were the ace of Spades and the re. We had in mind the story of the death of Dag Hammerskjöld the ex-president of the United Nations. He died in a planecrash in 1961. On his burned body the only object found was an Ace of Spades, totally intact. There are more artists that have been inspired by this story, for in- stance the great heavy-metal rock band Mötorhead with their song “The Ace of Spades”. In it Lenny sings that gambling is for fouls as himself and that he does not want to live forever, he wants to burn. The group thinks this is an excellent view point. The exhibition is full of meta, like the gun gh (all the walls of the galleri had bullet- holes in them), re, smoke and dead cat. From the basement an Elvis song can be heard as well as sounds of violence and bark- ing. The installation bears witness to that the battle between good and evil has taken place in galleri Slunkaríki. The question is which force rulse Ísafjörður.