Exhibitions

 

MÚDÍ expresses our inner weather; the emotional climate we navigate each day. The works are inspired by the artist’s life of continual movement across cultures, where each relocation required a recalibration of self.

Built through collage, tearing, drawing, layering, and erasing, the pieces mirror this cycle of fragmentation and reconstruction, tracing the artist’s ongoing search for where home resides. Eastern and Western materials—Chinese ink, Icelandic wool, recycled fragments from the artist’s travels, and industrial staples—form a landscape shaped by tension rather than resolution, becoming a cathartic way for the artist to ground these contradictions.

Visitors must navigate around the installation’s linear threads to reach the artworks. These lines echo the patterns within the pieces, turning movement through the space into an experience akin to navigating an inner emotional terrain.

Artists

Eirdís Ragnarsdóttir

Eirdís Ragnarsdóttir (b. 1993) is an Icelandic & Chinese artist living and working in Beijing. Growing up between Iceland, China, Japan and New York, alongside her mixed heritage, Eirdís’s creative process served as a sanctuary while facing her many identities. Her paintings express her dialectic experience of self, the subjects alien yet molding to its’ environment.

Eirdís’s work embodies a contradiction between the Western fixation of “finding oneself” and the Eastern philosophy of “no self”. She has participated in various exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Milan, Paris, Tokyo, nominated as one of China’s leading emerging artists of the year in 2024 by UCCA, she has exhibited with Gucci and collaborated with brands such as Arche, Burton & Fujifilm.