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DIALECTICS - 2025

On the back wall of a space that once served the customers of a gas station, hangs a series of graphic works. The silkscreen prints take their inspiration from the everyday banality of price collusion between oil importers that was estimated to have taken place between 1993 til 2001.

Framed silkscreen prints & paint

250 x 200 h. cm

These images are composed through the rhythmic repetition of logos from either regulatory bodies or lobby groups, woven together to form patterns. Colour schemes of other logos form the basis for colour gradients that have been hand-printed onto those patterns. Together, they form nine compositions. Each of which present a variation of what homeostasis may look like as pictorial composition. Whether the homeostasis of any the current order is desirable or not is, however, an open question.

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #1
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 13

vectors / hue based on: i
vectors based on: ii
gradient based on: iii

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #2
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors based on: iv

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #3
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: iv*, v
hues based on: vi

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #4
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: ii, iv*
gradient based on: viii

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #5
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors / hue based on: i, vii
vectors based on: iv*

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #6
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors / hue based on: i

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #7
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 9

vectors based on: ii
gradients based on: iii, viii

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #8
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 5

vectors based on: iv*
hue based on: vii

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #9
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: ii, iv
gradient based on: iii

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i) FME - Financial Supervisory Authority, Iceland → Regulator (IS)

ii) Icelandic Competition Authority → Regulator (IS)

iii) Icesave, Kaupthing Bank

iv) SFF - Finance Iceland → Lobbyist (IS) with membership to SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises

iv)* SFF - Finance Iceland logo repeated and altered to form a deregulated pattern

v) SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises → Lobbyist (IS) with membership to BusinessEurope

vi) BusinessEurope → Lobbyist (EU)

vii) SVTH - Federation of Trade & Services → Lobbyist (IS) with membership to SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises

viii) IOGP - International Association of Oil & Gas Producers → lobbyist (G)