Smári Róbertsson (b. 1992, Iceland) is an Icelandic artist based in Amsterdam. In his practice, Smári examines how meaning shifts through repetition, misalignment, and reuse. Rather than settling into a single form, the work circulates through temporary arrangements, proposing dislodged narratives that oscillate between folklore and folk-fact. Borrowed stories, images, and gestures are placed into new contexts, where authorship and identity remain unsettled.

These unraveling, incomplete, and intertextual examinations look for (re)semblance between the physical and the imaginary. Favouring provisional arrangements over finished statements, the work allows elements to circulate without resolving into a single position. Moving between sincerity and performance, it treats role and identity as provisional, placing them at the centre of a mischievous, resolutely contemporary fable.

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