Icelandic Printmaking Association Reykjavík Iceland.
Space is a space is a space is a site-specific projection work, using five projectors and dozens of images and videos of the gallery, shot from various angles that are projected back into the room itself. The space watches itself on loop, folding inwards through repetition, the space begins to shift gradually but continuously altering perception. The title echoes Gertrude Stein’s phrase a rose is a rose is a rose, a meditation on language and presence. Through repetition, Stein stripped the word of symbolic weight and allowed it to simply be. In this work, the same applies to space: space is space, until it is not. As the images cycle, the room becomes unstable, reflective, porous. It opens into something other, yet remains just space.
Minimal in form but conceptually layered, the installation uses the gallery as both subject and surface. The projectors act like silent oracles, casting image back into origin, guiding viewers into a state of deep attention. In a world saturated with distraction and technological noise, the work offers both a refuge and a challenge: to stay present in stillness, to encounter what arises when nothing pulls us away from ourselves.
Space is a space is a space explores time, repetition, perception, and transformation. For those giving it time, it quietly opens a door inward.
Sara Björnsdóttir 