{"id":1780,"date":"2015-11-09T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=1780"},"modified":"2015-11-13T23:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:50:27","slug":"horund-edda-heidrun-backman","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/horund-edda-heidrun-backman\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00d6RUND &#8211; Edda Hei\u00f0r\u00fan Backman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H\u00d6RUND<\/strong> &#8211; Art exhibition in The Nordic House.<\/p>\n<p>The material for Edda Hei\u00f0r\u00fan Backman\u00b4s exhibition H\u00d6RUND is bodies. Unsurprisingly, she uses traditional models whose arms and legs are the same length, but we can also find\u00a0all kinds of bodies, some of them very unusual indeed. Some are wounded and bear scars, others have something missing, and a third group has been given wings instead of limbs. All of them, though, are beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>We all have a natural protective covering. We usually call it a coat or hide when referring to animals and reserve the word \u201eskin\u201c for ourselves, often thinking of it as our largest organ. An adult human being\u00b4s skin is about two square metres in size and can weigh up to five kilograms. In Old Norse, the word h\u00f6rund also meant flesh and referred to the tissue that lies between skin and bone, preserved in the idomatic Icelandic expression &#8221; a\u00f0 renna kalt vatn \u00e1 milli skinns og h\u00f6runds&#8221; (lit. cold water is running between flesh and bone) which signifies a shudder of fear.<\/p>\n<p>Text by Au\u00f0ur Ava \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Translation by Martin Regal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00d6RUND &#8211; Art exhibition in The Nordic House. The material for Edda Hei\u00f0r\u00fan Backman\u00b4s exhibition H\u00d6RUND is bodies. Unsurprisingly, she uses traditional models whose arms and legs are the same length, but we can also find\u00a0all kinds of bodies, some of them very unusual indeed. Some are wounded and bear scars, others have something missing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1776,"template":"","event-categories":[60,56],"class_list":["post-1780","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-all-events","event-categories-exhibitions","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}