A rare convergence of feminist film and mythic gesture.

This September, marvaða presents MAGIC. The works in this program—Volcano Saga, 1989, by Joan Jonas, Women and Smoke, 1971-1972, by Judy Chicago, and Hex, 2025, by Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir & Sóley Stefánsdóttir—are bound by a shared invocation of magical thinking as an artistic method. Each work reclaims ritual, myth, and enchantment as strategies for making sense of lived experience.

Joan Jonas draws on Icelandic sagas to stage a dreamlike vision where prophecy and landscape merge; Judy Chicago choreographs smoke and colour as a feminist rite that transforms the atmosphere into a temporary temple; Katrín and composer Sóley conjure a contemporary hex, weaving sound, gesture, and cinematic spell into a form of resistance. Across generations, these artists demonstrate how magic—once dismissed as superstition—remains a potent language for re-imagining identity, community, and our relation to the forces that shape us.

The opening on September 6 at 18:00 features a screening of all three works, followed by a conversation between HEX writer and director Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir, composer and creator Sóley Stefánsdóttir, and curator Arnbjörg María Danielsen, with a closing DJ set.

The exhibition remains open on weekdays through September 26, with one film shown per day from 10:00–16:00.

7th September: Closed

8th - 12th September: Volcano saga, Joan Jonas

13th-14th September: Closed

15th - 19th September: Women and Smoke, California, Judy Chicago

20th - 21st: Closed

22nd - 25th September: HEX, Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir & Sóley Stefánsdóttir

26th September: Finissage including screening of all three films.