Träume: Anna Júlía Fridbjörnsdóttir – BUNKER

In dialogue with the exhibition Nacht, Anna Júlia Friöbjörnsdottir presents new works at the
bunker. At its centre stands a sculptural reconstruction of a whale scapula in silver, engraved with diagrams derived from a medieval astrolabe. Suspended between specimen and device, relic and tool, the bone merges celestial measurement with vulnerable anatomy. A system once used to locate fixed stars and regulate time is inscribed into a body drawn from a species on the edge of disappearance. Systems of navigation are thus embedded in a structure marked by precarity. Where a Pole Star might anchor the diagram, a conch shell occupies the centre.

The fixed celestial point is replaced by a spiral form associated with resonance and echo. A sheet of black carbon paper hangs against the wall, punctured with irregular constellations. Here the logic of Nacht reverses: scattered marks precede the system. In two works on paper, these fragments are gathered into tentative grids recalling strategic charts or game boards. Order emerges from dispersion, provisional rather than given. Within the bunker's enclosed architecture, Trume proposes a condition of post-polar navigation. Coordinates persist, yet their authority is no longer absolute. Orientation becomes a matter of negotiation between body and diagram, relic and instrument, chaos
and structure.