In spring 2025, Posture Editions presents the new book with the Icelandic artist Valgerður Sigurðardóttir (1992, Reykjavik): I must drink all the water.
In a seemingly naive way, Vala—shortened from Valgerður— depicts the extremely mundane and ordinary to the point of absurdity. Small scenes of people at the dinner table, a family in the car or on a boat, a woman in bath ...
Vala’s work has great integrity and falls back on very personal memories, dreams and fantasies that cling to small things rather than big stories.
Although her works are very personal, they push to tell a universal story that leaves as much room as possible for the viewer's own associations.
The book that Posture Editions will publish with Vala shows drawings on paper and an extensive series of ceramic she made from 2023 till now.
Koen Sels writes an implicit text on the formative power of dreams and drawing. Dreaming/drawing as a way to gain insight into our confusing existence, a “primitive” space of unfinishedness that is in some ways realer than what we consider real, the fixed, finalised routine ...
The book coincides with the artist’s first institutional exhibition at Ásmundarsalur in Reykjavík (opening 28.06.2025) and will also be available at Antwerp Art Weekend (29.05-01.06).