Vár Bænadikta Samuelsen
Vár Bænadikta Samuelsen
Var lets herself be inspired by systems and mechanics around reality and being. A framework that is inherently uncertain and understood in many different ways. Looking at the foundations of what Western philosophy has traditionally claimed to be the basis of reality, it is difficult for her not to question its apparent static nature. Is it meaningful to think of the universe as something composed of separate objects?

Recently, she has been working between theories of speculative quantum physics and spiritual practices that propose that circumstances and conditions preexist a "thing." It is heavily inspired by Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action, which suggests that entities do not exist independently before they interact. Rather than beginning with separate objects, reality happens through relationships. In a world where conditions precede things, the relationships between entities become fundamental.

From this perspective, care is more than an act between individuals. It relies on an attentiveness toward the conditions that sustain coexistence. Climate, ecology and human experience can’t be understood as separate parts but as expressions of shared systems that depend on each other. Care therefore becomes a practice of maintaining the conditions that allow life, change and relation.
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Vár Bænadikta Samuelsen
Lives and works in London, UK.

solo Exhibitions

2025 Móttakari, Janus Kambans Hús, Tórshavn

Exhibitions

2025 Maybe we can tangle and reform, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2025 World Building, Cornerstone studios, London

2024 Juhuuuuuuu!!, Vera Projektum, Copenhagen
2024 (Sprutt), National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn
2024 Where we are calling from, Copeland Gallery, London
2024 Intersecting lines, Camberwell Project Space, London

2023 Shapes and Things, AMP studios, London
2023 Faith and image, National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn
2023 #0000null, Phony, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos
2023 Doomscroll, Gallery DODO, Brighton
2023 Gerardis Openberingar, Listasavn Føroya, Tórshavn

2022 Dear, my dear, LIISA, Tórshavn
2022This Sublime Life, Copperdollar Studios, Brighton

2019 Wet and hard, Københavns Kunstskole, Copenhagen

Education

2025-2026 Contemporary Art Practice, RCA
2020-2023 Fine arts BA, University of Brighton
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