Amanda Riffo wins Icelandic Art Prize

Amanda Riffo is a Chilean-French artist who has been living in Iceland since 2012. She was awarded artist of the year at the Icelandic Art Prize by the minister of culture.

Amanda received the prize for her exhibition House of Purkinje, which was exhibited at the Living Art Museum and curated by Sunna Ástþórsdóttir.

Photo by Sisters Lumière.

According to Amanda’s website, “the title refers to the Czech biochemist Jan Evangelista Purkyně who, among other things, discovered corresponding and multiple reflections of a single image that appear on the surface of the eye and from within it. Like multiple reflections of the self”.

You can read more about the award winning exhibition on Amanda’s website.