Overview
A Collection of ColorsLife is first and foremost feelings, and feelings are a spectrum of colors.
We all carry the rainbow within our perception. It shifts and moves as we do, while the trees stand still.
Though we all pretend to be strong, we are nothing but feelings. They are closely bound to colors.
We live in a land of colors.
Text by Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir.
Högna Heiðbjört Jónsdóttir (b. 1997) lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied fine art at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in The Netherlands and earned a BA degree from Iceland University of the Arts in 2021. Högna is first and foremost a painter and relies on instinct to create her works. Högna’s work is characterized by collection and arrangement, combined with the use of strong, synergetic colors. Everyday objects and the beauty inherent in the daily grind can be found in her work, in which she recontextualizes the familiar and thereby draws attention to things that many overlook.
At the exhibition A Collection of Colors, Högna presents thirteen new works. What all the pieces have in common is that their materials come from paint stores — whether purchased, donated, or collected over time. Högna uses color sample cards as paint, incorporates drawings made unintentionally by others, and employs ordinary wall paint as part of the creative process.
