Halla Einarsdóttir made Wall of Scrolls during the summer of 2020. The rough, unpolished interior and the raw stone walls of Syb, in combination with the corona lockdown, became the main forces behind the work. For Halla, they prompted an investigation into surfaces and varnish: the outer layers that envelop our everyday myths and metaphors of intimate and domestic places. The work tries to emphasize the inevitable cracks in physical surfaces and in the intangible layers of varnish and stories we tell each other. The video follows a player navigating through a fictional video game while engaging in a slightly distorted dialogue with the game’s narrator. The game environment was developed in collaboration with Faysal Mroueh.

Halla Einarsdóttir (b.1991 Reykjavík, Iceland) is an artist based in Rotterdam. She obtained her BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2015. In 2016, her work was shortlisted for the 7th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize at Kunsthuis Syb.