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Adam and I have been awarded an art residency at the Gunnar Gunnarsson Klaustri∂, located in Skriduklaustur, in the Fljotsdalur Valley, East Iceland. The residency takes place from June 20 through July 11, 2008. We will be continuing the About to Happen artwork series we began last year in Iceland and we will share our work with the community through lectures and exhibitions.

Dettifoss is part of the About to Happen series, which consists of short video projections from Méndez’s 16mm film shoot throughout Iceland. In Dettifoss, Méndez captures an instant of Europe’s largest waterfall—500 cubic meters per second, and in Brekka, a moment of giant rye grass being forcefully blown by the wind.

In these works, Méndez continues to explore the dialogue between the weather and the landscape as a way to address issues of time and space in relation to human physicality. Considers the journey as medium and travels to Iceland regularly.