motion to change colour names

Solo exhibition: angela snæfellsjökuls rawlings

Curator: Daria Testo

It is the first month of 2025 CE, marking 75 years since the proposed onset of the Anthropocene. Humanity stands at the threshold of crossing multiple planetary boundaries, which will trigger rapid and irreversible environmental changes. Slökkvistöðin Gallery sits near the shore of Gufunes in the former fire station of a fertiliser factory. The gallery is a testament to this era of ecological and societal change. 

Hence, here, DR. angela snæfellsjökuls rawlings moves the Motion to Change Colour Names to Reflect Planetary Boundary Tipping Points. Through exhibits, a written motion, and a Deliberative Assembly participatory performance, rawlings proposes socio-legal innovation. 

To members and visitors, “Mover” angela snæfellsjökuls rawlings is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. In 2024, rawlings founded the collective Snæfellsjökul fyrir forseta, nominating the glacier for Iceland’s presidency. The collective of more than fifty activists brought rights of nature to Iceland through public discourse and artistic intervention. rawlings holds a PhD in interdisciplinary artistic practice-as-research from the University of Glasgow and teaches at Iceland University of the Arts.