Erna Skúladóttir

Erna Skúladóttir often engages with themes of time, geology, and environmental transformation. She documents the subtle yet profound impact of climate change on natural forms. Erna works with glacial and geological time, capturing the slow movements and transformations of Iceland’s landscapes. Her installations document the intersection of climate change and natural history, asking viewers to contemplate the scale and fragility of environments shaped over millennia. 

In Yfirborð, Erna Skúladóttir meditates on the fragility and flux of geological materiality, exposing the illusion of solidity within landscapes. Her manipulation of unfired clay and natural materials speaks to the constant transformation occurring beneath the surface of seemingly stable matter. By working with materials that dry, crack, and decay over time, her installations insist on the viewer’s attunement to slow, almost imperceptible changes. Skúladóttir’s work translates geological processes into sculptural form, mirroring how time operates on both emotional and environmental scales.