In this series of photographs Guðbjörg Lind takes rock as her subject. Rock generally evokes a sense of stasis, hardness, weight. But here that does not apply. The artist places the rock in a figurative manner, on glass, so that a muted reflection appears from the depths. And by turning the photographs on edge, she creates movement: the rock no longer rests on its reflection, but dances with it; the two sides of the image merge. At that interface, meaning comes into being: in the invisible line between reality and refection; in that which is neither reflection nor reality, but the observer‘s imagining. This is highlighted by the sixth photograph, which does not depict rock as such, but a shape from Guðbjörg Lind‘s mind: something soft, in constant motion. A rock that isn’t rock.
