Irene
Hrafnan//
IRENE HRAFNAN BERMUDEZ
Irene Hrafnan (b. 1983) is an artist and researcher based in Reykjavík. Her work moves between installation, video, sculpture, and text, often grounded in long-term investigations of place, disappearance, and the unstable edges of archives. Rooted in an interest in ecological systems, memory, and the language of classification, she explores how materials and histories drift, are reassembled, or quietly resist preservation.
Through minimal interventions and speculative methods, Irene constructs shifting frameworks that examine belonging, heritage, and the bodily act of tracing what is no longer locatable. Her practice often engages with overlooked or unruly presences—plants, architectures, and objects that sit at the threshold of visibility or categorization—inviting alternative forms of knowing and witnessing.
She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts, expanding her research into the poetics and politics of spatial memory, speculative historiography, and environmental imaginaries.