Molta

By Rósa ómarsdóttir

MOLTA is an immersive interdisciplinary installation and a live performance which will open in Gerðarsafn. The artist Rósa Ómarsdóttir creates ecosystems which are transformed through natural processes. This ecosystem melts, leak, decomposes, grow, morphs and evaporates. Molta means compost in Icelandic and is a metaphor. Compost is a place for both decomposition and fertility, where obsolete and outmoded phenomena break down and new ones spring up. In the work MOLTA Rósa explores tentative and ever changing ecosystems. She explores the boundaries of man, environment and technology, where everything affects each other. Humans morph together with mushrooms, plastic particles and electrons. What springs out of the compost?

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Photos by Hákon Pálsson

Credits:

Artistic team: Performers: Saga Sigurðardóttir, Karítas Lotta Tuliníus, Erna Gunnarsdóttir, Andrean Sigurgeirsson and Gabriele Bagdonaite. Music: Nicolai Johansen Dramaturg: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir Costumes: Kristjana Reynisdóttir Installation: Rósa Ómarsdóttir, Guðný Hrund Sigurðardóttir and Hákon Pálsson Light: Hákon Pálsson Technical advice: Valdimar Jóhannsson Interns: Olivia Pyszko and Júlía Kolbrún Sigurðardóttir

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