Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson

Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson are an Icelandic–British artist duo whose collaborative practice investigates human–nonhuman relationships through research-driven installations, photography, video, and text. Since the early 2000s, they have explored the cultural and ecological implications of species displacement, extinction, and conservation. Their acclaimed projects combine fieldwork, archival research, and interdisciplinary collaboration to question how we define and care for other species, revealing the complexities and contradictions in human attitudes toward nature.

Time and Tide (2022) and Time and Again (2023) are portrait-format video works that weave together sound and image through recorded narratives of polar bear arrivals in Iceland, evoking fragile encounters between human and non-human histories. Shown in dialogue with sculptural works, they extend a practice of material and ecological storytelling. Matrix (Svalbard) (2020), a hand-blown glass sculpture proportioned at 1:20 to the dimensions of a real polar bear den in Svalbard, based on scientific drawings from Norwegian researchers, anchors the video’s themes of habitat and presence in fragile form and light. Totemic Objects (2023) transforms driftwood, clay, and animal remains into hybrid forms that suggest both relic and future fossil, gesturing toward the interdependence and precarity of life. Together, these works emerge from the long-term Visitations research project, for which the artists received the Icelandic Art Prize in 2022, and continue their inquiry into the shifting boundaries between species, landscape, and myth.