Power by the trio Icelandic Love Corporation.

RENOWNED trio the Icelandic Love Corporation (ILC)’s new exhibition TIGHT opened last Friday 20 August at Helsinki’s Amos Anderson Art museum.

Referring to skin-tight pantyhose the exhibition utilises nylon in a cocktail of different manners: as material and subject-matter, and also in costumes.

Comprising Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir and Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, the ILC trio has worked together since 1996. Creating performances that incorporate a wide spectrum of expression including installations, sculptures, prints, textiles, photographs and videos, ILC wraps serious social, existential and political commentary in often absurdist humour.

This new exhibition embraces a number of differing media such as videos, photographs, large spatial works, reliefs and embroidered works. Enjoying a dalliance between pondering the synthetic and the organic, the broad scope of the exhibition also contains larger than life motifs such as the origin of life and resultant evolution of mankind.

A number of workshops are also being conducted by ILC, with one especially for school children aged 10-15, as well as a workshop each Sunday at 11-14, which is open to the public.

Furthermore, guided tours of the exhibition are conducted in Finnish on Wednesdays at 16:30, and in Swedish on Mondays at 16:30.

JAMES O’SULLIVAN - HT