Reykjavík Museum of Photography Exhibition:

Echo – Charlotta Hauksdóttir and Sonja Thomsen

In “Echo”, a two-woman exhibition by Charlotta María Hauksdóttir and Sonja Thomsen, the theme is time and recurrence of the past which they approach in their own personal way.

Charlotta’s photographs in the exhibition can be seen as a kind of a grief process of a condition which hasn’t fully been adjusted to. Charlotta works with different aspects of the memory, the conscious and the subconscious.

In her work, Sonja also gives us fragments of life which at first seems to be rooted in the subconscious but gains a new meaning in the eyes of the viewer.

Thus, she brings the focus on subconscious memories, offers them as if they were gifts and asks the viewer to give them a new value.

By doing this she transforms subconscious memories to conscious memories. Seen from this viewpoint it can be said that the exhibition’s title “Echo” not only refers to how the past reflects in the present but also in the works exhibited.

On display until May 6.