'FOSSILS FROM THE PLASTIC AGE' is the title of Rósa Gísladóttir's new exhibition at Gallerie Käytävä, situated in the Icelandic Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, which opens on August 12th, 2024.

In her art, Rósa Gísladóttir has from the beginning of
her career worked with old traditions and methods focusing on the laws of
symmetry. She approaches each project from a contemporary perspective which is
not built on nostalgia, but rather to make us aware of the basis of
morphology of the forms and the change which their meaning has undergone in
the course of history.

The works in this exhibition address issues relating to values,
consumption, and identity, reflecting on the love/hate relationship with plastic - on
the beauty and the ugliness when a lovely bottle of cold water becomes an ugly
item of trash. Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong,
and inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us to such a
greedy appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. Rósa provides the viewers
with new perspectives, connected to their daily life to interpret and connect with
their own experiences and community structure. Her works are in close connection
with her social context and therefore influenced by current events, the global
attraction to plastic, and the over-consuming, discarding, littering, and thus
polluting, which are threatening nature. This prompts us to think about the impact of
human activity on the environment.

The show remains on view until October 7th, 2024.