SELFLOVE

Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir

SELFLOVE | 2019

metal wall piece 

each letter around 30x50 in total around 230x50 

unique piece

This piece SELFLOVE (2019) in the Sculpture Garden in Reykjavík (Dec 2019). 

The work belongs to the artwork series Selflove (2019-). The red metal sculptures that surround and burden the subject - the artist, are letters which form the word “sjálfsást”, meaning “selflove”. Each metal letter weighs around 50 kg. This interpretation symbolizes the mass of Earth based on its physical inner core shaped like a heart.

The title of the work belongs to another independent outdoor mural installed on the wall in the Sculpture Garden in Reykjavík at the end of 2019. The work hung until the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. The piece marks a graphical break in life before and after COVID-19, and it is defined as an opportunity to introduce active self love into our new lives, our new context and our new consciousness. Possibility of a new vision - the beginning of self love and practice.

Imagine everyone having the self love virus injected into themselves!