Solo Exhibition · Reykjanes Art Museum
Within Heart
and Mind
June 2020
Since 2014, Haraldur has been working on videos based on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain — a long-term body of work he simply calls Brain.
Science is learning more and more about the brain, and MRI plays a central role in gaining a better understanding of its functioning and development. Through these scans, Haraldur has embarked on his own artistic exploration — using image editing programs to travel through unknown areas and draw patterns, paths, and chemical reactions from the raw clinical data.
For this exhibition, he also worked with magnetic resonance imaging of a heart, treating it in the same way as the brain imagery. Part of the installation at the Reykjanes Art Museum is based on abstract visual material that deals with the same subject but is worked directly in image processing programs — translating exact biological data into an aesthetic of pure light, form, and movement.
The work is a long-term project, made as a direct continuation of Little Solar System (2000–2022) — moving from the macro scale of planetary signals to the micro scale of the body's interior.
