{"id":33932,"date":"2019-06-21T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33932"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:20:09","slug":"hrafnhildur-arnardottir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/hrafnhildur-arnardottir\/","title":{"rendered":"hrafnhildur arnard\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33933\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33933\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/HrafnhildurArnardottir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4053\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Wow.<\/em> In one month from <em>today<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/europeanculturalacademy.com\/art\">I will be in Venice<\/a>&#8230; and I just found my first stop at the biennale! This is the Icelandic Pavilion, and the magical work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoplifter.us\">Hrafnhildur Arnard\u00f3ttir, aka Shoplifter<\/a>. She has transformed a warehouse <em>{Spazio Punch, on the island of Giudecca}<\/em> into a soft, colorful, bizarre world titled &#8220;Chromo Sapiens&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Working with both synthetic and natural hair her sculptures, wall murals and site-specific installations explore themes of vanity, self-image, fashion, beauty and popular myth. For Shoplifter hair is the ultimate thread that grows from our body. Hair is an original, creative fiber, a way for people to distinguish themselves as individuals, and often an art form.\u00a0Humor plays a large role in her life and work, sometimes subtly, but at other times taking over.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will go there, I will sit in there, I may not come out of there. {<em>Yes, that&#8217;s\u00a0Hrafnhildur\u00a0in the shot above, and I&#8217;m planning on striking the same pose when I&#8217;m in there &#8230; how could I not!?}<\/em> Happy Friday.<\/p>\n<h5><em><strong>Images by\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabetdavidsdottir.com\/\">Elisabet Davidsdottir<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. In one month from today I will be in Venice&#8230; and I just found my first stop at the biennale! This is the Icelandic Pavilion, and the magical work of Hrafnhildur Arnard\u00f3ttir, aka Shoplifter. She has transformed a warehouse {Spazio Punch, on the island of Giudecca} into a soft, colorful, bizarre world titled &#8220;Chromo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33936,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33932\/revisions\/33936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}