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Music piece / Tónverk

Fernanda has many experiences of being a migrant, she was born in Brazil into a family of Spanish, Italian and Japanese lineages. Seventeen years ago she left Brazil and moved to London, and then came to Iceland five years ago.
In the song you hear Fernanda talking on the phone to her mother in Brazil.
A term not easily translatable, the Brazilian expression ’saudade’ describes a sentiment that those living far away from their families might relate to.
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Fernanda hefur upplifað það að vera innflytjandi á margfaldan hátt. Hún fæddist í Brasilíu í fjölskyldu með rætur til Spánar, Ítalíu og Japans. Fyrir sautján árum flutti hún frá Brasilíu til London, og kom síðan til Íslands fyrir fimm árum síðan.
Í laginu heyrist Fernanda tala í síma við móður sína í Brasilíu.
Þó að það sé erfitt að þýða Brasilíska hugtakið ‘saudade’, þá lýsir það tilfinningu sem þau sem búa langt frá fjölskyldu sinni gætu tengt við.

Art piece / Listaverk

by Melanie Ubaldo

Lola Eva
Video, photographs, inkjet print, 2020

“Inspired by the sound piece of Fernanda’s conversation with her mother, the piece is dedicated to my newly deceased grandmother in the Philippines, Lola Eva. Here she sings, words mostly undecipherable, a love song.”











Melanie Ubaldo (b. 1992, Philippines) is an Icelandic artist based in Reykjavik. In Melanie's work image and text are inextricably linked, where deconstructionist paintings incorporate text with graffiti like vandalism oftentimes of her own crude experiences of others preconceptions, thus exposing the power of immediate unreflected judgment. She has taken part in various exhibitions locally and abroad. Her work has since been acquired by the Reykjavik Museum for the permanent collection. Melanie is also the co-founder of Lucky 3; a collective of Icelandic artists of Filipino origins.

melanieubaldo.com