Autore: Olafur Pall Jonsson

ÆSA SIGURJÓNSDÓTTIR is art historian living and working in Reykjavik and Paris. She has worked as curator, editor, art critic, researcher, and as visual arts expert for the European Commission. She is currently teaching at the University of Iceland and the Iceland Art Academy and working on research projects for the National Museum of Iceland and the National Gallery Iceland. She has written on contemporary art and 19th and 20th century photography and is author of Islande en vue. Photographes français en Islande 1845-1900 (2000). Her interest in the relationship between contemporary art and nature dates back to her participation in the project Différentes natures. Visions de l”art contemporain, (Paris 1993), where she researched and co-edited the catalogue.