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Katrín Sigurðardóttir: High Plane V
October 29, 2006 - May 7, 2007
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present High Plane V (2006), Katrín Sigurdardóttir’s first solo project in New York. This site-specific architectural intervention, which inhabits P.S.1’s second and third floor corner galleries, is on view from October 29, 2006 to May 7, 2007.
High Plane V will depict an artificial landscape, made of the most basic construction materials: blue insulation material and white paint. The panorama, which is a mix of imagined and real Arctic topographies, will be constructed on the floor of the third floor corner gallery. In order to view the landscape, visitors will be invited to climb up one of two ladders in the second floor gallery, and raise their heads through one of the two holes in the ceiling above. Upon reaching the third floor, the two viewers will be confronted not only with the icescape, but also with each other. As the topography is elusive in its source, it invites diverse interpretations – mountain ridges, icebergs, glaciers, or perhaps archipelagos seen from above the clouds.
In her work, Sigurdardóttir merges nature, architecture, and design, inspired by her native Iceland as well as New York, her home for the last twelve years. From conventional woodshop materials, such as plywood, polystyrene, and foam core, she creates miniature versions of imaginary and real environments that are often presented in crates, suitcases, or room-sized installations. These complex architectural structures encourage direct participation, and also evoke references to fragile childhood scale models and places of the imagination
