The exhibition, titled Wishing you the best on your birthday, is on view from 20 June to 14 August 2024 and features multiple small-scale watercolour paintings recently made by the artist.
Birgisdóttir is known for her nuanced artistic practice, which looks critically at the global systems of production and distribution and the strange lives of the products they create. Her work draws attention to the small, disposable objects that are often the mass-produced accessories of material culture: packing materials, price tags, signage and systems of display. She casts these objects in new roles, changing their value and meaning entirely as they are experienced outside of their original function. The artist has said of her practice, “the unfortunate produce of consumerism is my material, and human systems are my tools.” She utilises the systems of global production to sculpt and create her pieces, folding the capacities and cultures of manufacturers, fabricators, commercial firms, shipping companies, and the pleasures and perils of internet searches into her artistic process.
