Valgerður Sigurðardóttir ‘I must drink all the water’

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Valgerður Sigurðardóttir ‘I must drink all the water’In a seemingly naive way, Valgerur Sigurardttir (b. 1992, Reykjavik) depicts the extremely mundane and ordinary to the point of absurdity. Small scenes of people at the dinner table, a family in the car or on a boat, a woman in bath Valashortened from Valgerurmakes works that have great integrity and fall back on very personal memories, dreams and fantasies that cling to small things rather than big stories. Although her works are very personal, they

‘Everything seems to have a standard place

which she organizes and keeps in boxes

The new book contains some thirty works on paper and more than fifty oil paintings created over a period of five years

as an ode to the beautiful collaborations with artists

Carole Vanderlinden is a great admirer of Giotto

One way or another is the title of the very first Posture Pockets and the guide to the exhibition of the same name that took place in the S

The work expresses above all a melancholy desire to search in the rubble of what is broken

the patterns become more compact and dense

Dries Peeters

a certain universality and restraint always hangs around his drawings: although they are based on centuries-old natural landscapes

such a splendid sunrise is an irresistible trope: a visual motif that simply begs to be captured and fixed on film

they also provide an ideal diversion from the countless bad tidings we’re confronted with every day