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Born in 1969 in Reykjavik, Island. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. 

Silence, precision, restraint and economy of means make up the world of Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir. Her studio is both a cabinet of curiosities and a laboratory for meditative experimentation, where the artistreworks the materials available to her. Scraps of paper, carefully preserved cut-outs of previous works, cut-out or typed words, traces, memories... So many scattered fragments that metamorphose and come togetherthrough a subtle alchemy. Each piece builds up slowly, sometimes over years, and has its own structure between geometric and organic forms, between figuration and abstraction.

L'Étranger by Camus is the first book Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir read in French. Born in Iceland, she came to Belgium after completing her art studies and has since lived divided between three languages, Icelandic, English and French, using the last two very well but without mastering them perfectly. She draws a parallelbetween the feeling of alienation and language discrepancies, highlighting spelling mistakes or untranslatablewords (Icelandic is full of concepts linked to emptiness, immensity and solitude that are impossible to translate directly). Her work is based on memory, the invisible, the 'almost nothing' and the fragility of things. Over the years, she has collected fragments of various papers and other materials, in the same way as one would treasure memories, before assembling them. Shapes and phrases travel through her work, recurring, each leaving its mark on Guðný Rósa's mysterious compositions, filled with silences.