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DIALECTICS - 2025

On the back wall of a space that once served the customers of a gas station, hangs a series of graphic works. The silkscreen prints take their inspiration from the everyday banality of price collusion between oil importers that was estimated to have taken place between 1993 til 2001.



These images are composed through the rhythmic repetition of logos from either regulatory bodies or lobby groups, woven together to form patterns. Colour schemes of other logos form the basis for colour gradients that have been hand-printed onto those patterns. Together, they form nine compositions. Each of which present a variation of what homeostasis may look like as pictorial composition. Whether the homeostasis of any the current order is desirable or not is, however, an open question.

Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #1
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 13

vectors / hue based on: i
vectors based on: ii
gradient based on: iii






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #2
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors based on: iv






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #3
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: iv*, v
hues based on: vi






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #4
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: ii, iv*
gradient based on: viii






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #5
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors / hue based on: i, vii
vectors based on: iv*






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #6
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6

vectors / hue based on: i






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #7
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 9

vectors based on: ii
gradients based on: iii, viii






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #8
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 5

vectors based on: iv*
hue based on: vii






Silkscreen print

DIALECTICS #9
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 7

vectors based on: ii, iv
gradient based on: iii







i FME - Financial Supervisory Authority, Iceland
Regulator (IS)






ii Icelandic Competition Authority
Regulator (IS)






iii Icesave, Kaupthing Bank






iv SFF - Finance Iceland
Lobbyist (IS) with membership to SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises






iv* SFF - Finance Iceland logo repeated and altered to form a deregulated pattern



v SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises
Lobbyist (IS) with membership to BusinessEurope






vi BusinessEurope
Lobbyist (EU)






vii SVTH - Federation of Trade & Services
Lobbyist (IS) with membership to SA - Confederation of Icelandic Enterprises






viii International Association of Oil & Gas Producers
IOGP
lobbyist (G)