artist/ Ástríður Jósefína Ólafsdóttir

Islande

Ástríður Jósefína Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic-Italian artist whose figurative paintings explore the boundary between the material and the ephemeral. Her background in aerial silks informs her exploration of movement, gravity, and the way pressure shapes the human form. Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Olafsdóttir has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, gaining recognition for her poetic approach to absence, identity, and transformation.

Rooted in both classical and contemporary traditions, her work replaces the direct representation of the body with its imprint, often using fabric as a stand-in for human presence. Her ongoing series, “Panneggio,” draws from drapery studies to express the tension between concealment and exposure.